Our German scientists were better than their German scientists.
Well I guess with the passing of the last original nazi- v2- rocketeer, it’s just as well Obama’s “transformed” NASA from its intended mission of boosting rockets into the universe -— into some sort of crazy Moslem ego-boosting hand- holding Allah-be-praised kindergarten.
The Saturn 5 was designed in the mid-1960s using primarily slide rules and the earliest primitive computers and only flew from 1967 to 1973.
Since then NASA has failed to build a replacement launch vehicle of comparable lift capacity and none are planned.
No private organization could survive while producing increasingly inferior products.
Not that NASA does not produce good science. The Hubble telescope produces great deep space images but even Hubble demonstrates how the NASA organization has become incompetent.
Hubble’s first pictures shocked the scientist at NASA because they were blurred. In the design stage of the primary mirror a calculation error cause the mirror to be ground incorrectly. Hubble had to be retrofitted with a correcting lens. The Hubble program also at the beginning was bid out without an end to end test of the telescope that would have caught the error before the launch of the telescope.
Perhaps the only good thing to come out of the Obama administration is the privatization of parts of the space program.
RIP.
