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Originally Posted by 213e90n51
If they can create the older model if the moon landing ship by armstrong. And maybe even upgrade the parts on it, we can all be chillin on the moon by now. It just takes some of the older guys that did the moon mission to get files or notebooks or maybe engineers. We shouldve been at pluto by now, we got to the moon in the 70s idknow why we struggling to shoot rockets up.
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Not to reprise my comment from the other thread a few months ago, but in simple terms, it would cost the same or more to go backwards in technological time to the 1960s to redevelop the Apollo space program rather than jump forward. The technologies, techniques, and machine tools used to build Apollo-era spacecraft no longer exist and the people who developed the technology are no longer alive, or are of an advanced age that their contributions would be detrimental to the effort.
Modern space exploration needs technology to move forward and the mission is different than the 1960s era programs. The Space Program is well past Pluto already. Google the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 programs to see their status. Voyager is the farthest man-made object from the sun and is in interstellar space. New Horizons flew by Pluto in 2015.
Putting humans on other planets is slightly difficult... NASA explored the solar system using autonomous spacecraft and planetary rovers in advance of human landings just as they did with the moon. The spacecraft technology shifted away from manned flight to autonomous programs as a consequence.