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The reason NASA's current plan is taking a bit longer is it is considerably more ambitious than the Apollo program. If they were only trying to replicate Apoll

The reason NASA's current plan is taking a bit longer is it is considerably more ambitious than the Apollo program. If they were only trying to replicate Apollo it would be far easier to do. Smarter Every Day had a rather interesting video on his concerns with the program. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU and they were more about a program design that requires over 15 fueling launches for every trip to the moon, and concerns about management and transparency. I don't think anyone is claiming this issues are lost technology though.

ein0p 3y ago
The proof is in the pudding. The pudding is that NASA of 2024 has no human space flight capability at all.
- marssaxman 3y ago
  NASA of 2024 does not need human space flight capability, because that has been successfully commercialized.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago
  > proof is in the pudding. The pudding is that NASA of 2024 has no human space flight capability Stupidity and ignorance sometimes tread into troll territory. Nobody has gone back to the Moon since America. That’s not because of a simultaneous global coma. It’s because nobody bothered. If your understanding of aeronautics and mechanics is so base as to propose that we, America, cannot lap what we did in the 60s today, there might be better reading material available than anecdotes [1]. If your complaint is literally a private v public one, that’s beyond me and my cat. [1] https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Aerospace_Engineering/Fundamentals_of_Aerospace_Engineering_(Arnedo) https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Aerospace_Engineering...