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I’m not convinced even the US is actually capable of that.

• ein0p 2y ago
  It’s the only country that landed people on the moon like twice a year. Sure, that was 50 years ago, but some of those old timers are still around.
• JumpCrisscross 2y ago
  > not convinced even the US is actually capable of that Then you haven’t been paying attention to American aerospace over the past decade and a half. It is far more capable today than it was in the 60s, particularly in robotics. Where we lag is in human space flight, in part due to bureaucracy and complacence among the majors, in part because we have ridiculously-high safety standards.
  • binary132 2y ago
    Incapability due to regulatory and bureaucratic burden is real incapability. and frankly, while we have made some technical advances, we have also suffered severe logistical, political, and capital losses, especially in context of the aforementioned bureaucratic and regulatory burden. We have also suffered, IMO, loss of capability in our elite engineering echelon. The F-35 is a perfect example of what I’m describing. Technically brilliant in some ways, sure. Pretty lame and terrible in others. Debatably an advance over previous generations of aircraft, at the very least. Today’s NASA is a completely different animal than the NASA which put a man on the Moon. I don’t see SpaceX doing it either. Not today. Maybe tomorrow. Let’s wait and see.