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To: Elsie

As Campion pointed out, there is a lunar return program, so you’d have to ask NASA. Since you believe we went there already and since NASA is trying to do it “again,” you should have no problem with it. If we were able to do it over 50 years ago then what’s the hold up??


100 posted on 08/05/2023 8:22:41 AM PDT by FLvoter
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To: FLvoter
what’s the hold up

Are you an engineer of any kind? (I am, BTW.) Ever worked in manufacturing of any kind?

There's a whole lot of work involved in getting from "knowing how to do something" technical to actually doing it.

Very little of the infrastructure or production capability built for Apollo still exists today. In a number of cases, you wouldn't want to use it even if you had it, because we have much better ways of doing stuff today. (Example: the guidance system for the Saturn V cost half a million dollars in 1969. Your cell phone has more computing power.)

You will no doubt come back with, "Then why aren't we there already?" Easy: a cell phone isn't a guidance system for a moon rocket.

106 posted on 08/05/2023 11:59:38 AM PDT by Campion (Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - Little Flower)
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To: FLvoter

I like to vacation in DIFFERENT places.


112 posted on 08/05/2023 6:29:43 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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