“i’m no space geek but if they could send one up no worries in the 60s why not now?”
I’ll answer that question by saying “Good enough for government work.” In other words, completely unacceptable by non-government standards. NASA has become a monstrous, inefficient beaurocracy. Things crash, break, fall apart, fail to operate, because these morons can’t even read the designs. When something’s supposed to have an auto-guidance using the metric system, and your department programs it to use feet, and no one notices... That’s a SERIOUS PROBLEM!
There are firms that would LOVE to get a contract to build a shuttle, or a space station, or get a man on the moon again. Why won’t we let them try?
The federal government has become a place where young people go after college to retire to the “good” life while they are in their early 20s. The only thing they know how to do well is get the check deposited and party. Meanwhile, those who are capable are shown the door because they may do something to end the gray train.
Cut the government in half and you would still have enough inefficiency to half it again.
The Saturn V Moon Rocket was a multistage liquid-fuel rocket which was a concept developed by Wernher von Braun and a team of German scientists.