Re: Back to the moon? When?

"Erich Kohl" <ekohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

However, I am in a debate with someone who wants to know why it's
taking us (or anyone else for that matter) so long to go back there.
After all, if it was done once before with 1960's technology and
know-how, what's causing the delay in the expedition this time?

Others have mentioned budget - but a less obvious part of it that the
lunar mission effort actually began (in a diffuse manner) in some
cases years before Kennedy threw down the gauntlet.

The bit about "60's technology" is also a more than a little
misleading. Despite the fact that we have fast computers now-a-days,
it still takes time to build stuff. Especially big and complicated
stuff.

D.
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