A lot of the institutional memory is lost if the tech isn’t used. Imagine you’re a new starter at NASA on a new mission to build a new space shuttle. A lot of t

A lot of the institutional memory is lost if the tech isn’t used. Imagine you’re a new starter at NASA on a new mission to build a new space shuttle. A lot of the people you’d ask for guidance are gone. You would need to figure a lot of it out yourself, except for what’s documented. NASA is not exempt from this, same as any other company that does engineering.