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Originally Posted by Efthreeoh
You're still with this question?
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 fley by Pluto in 2015.
Putting humans on other planets is slightly difficult...
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Only if you want them alive.
