Re: Saturn 5 Question

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> > What I think is worse is that the country has lost the collective
> engineering know-how that built Apollo/Saturn.
>
> That's the nature of space engineering. It's too small of a field to
> retain complete capability
>
> Look on the sci.space.* groups at all the people who want to trash NASA
> and lay off everyone who works on Shuttle. These people will all find
> jobs in other fields, and getting them *back* into space work would be
> one hell of a challenge.
>
>
> >I'm worried that the next generation of
> space engineers will have to "re-invent the wheel" to accomplish any
> big projects.
>
> Yup. Once an entire industry has dried up and blown away, getting it
> back means starting from square one.

Isn't that showing now with the new lunar plans?

It's going to take over 10 years to get us back to where we were 40 years
ago!


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