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There are now destroyers, frigates and aircraft carries that do the same job more efficiently. I can't really say how we now have a better rocket that can send

There are now destroyers, frigates and aircraft carries that do the same job more efficiently. I can't really say how we now have a better rocket that can send people to the Moon.

DocTomoe 3y ago
Neither destroyers, frigates or aircraft carriers do what a battleship did - delivering projectiles the size of a human some 15 kilometres away in a ballistic arch with some precision. We do have rocketry that is a lot more advanced than the Saturn V ever was - but it simply cannot, and does not do what the Saturn V did.
bell-cot 3y ago
> ...that do the same job more efficiently. I could argue details - but notice that, after battleships were no longer so important, it remained a critical priority for the U.S. Navy to be the "Reigning Superpower" on the world's oceans: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/b/budget-of-the-us-navy-1794-to-2004.html https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading... Vs. how interested was the U.S. Gov't in retaining "can go to the moon" capabilities after Apollo 17 (in Dec'72)? Can you name any post-Apollo, pre-2000 manned-moon-mission NASA programs which received serious funding?