[NorthMountain]

Still there are many of us that would like to see the S5 reborn, but we are just wishing - couldn’t build it now if we tried.

And shouldn't try even if we could. If there was a need for that much lift right now, we could do better. Materials and manufacturing methods have improved greatly since the 1960s. Computers have also improved a little ...

[PIF]

And shouldn’t try even if we could.

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Not right now, but in the near future there will be need for that much and more. It takes years to bring such a project to fruition so yes start now. Good way to always be behind the lift curve. In fact, had it been rebuilt or continued, it could take guys back to the moon now.

Every time some politician says let’s go there or over here, there are decades spent trying to develop the tech to lift really big payloads, meanwhile some other politician comes along and cancels the whole development cycle - so it never happens - it always looks like it might, but never will. Not until there is a lasting political will to go beyond LEO. What ever DJT might do or initiate has no guarantee of lasting beyond his 4-8 years. Same goes for Musky’s babies - no political will means his projects are dead and all efforts are nil.

Space programs cannot achieve what they could as long as they are tied to political whims and fates. The only other possibility is for manned space exploration to become a national priority, a political GOAL, not a policy.