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Originally Posted by Jim Richards
Really, by that logic we couldn't get to the moon and back back in the 1960's. Who knew those things before they actually did it? No one. Of course, some would argue that the moon landing really happened in Hollywood, CA.  |
The men who rolled up their starched white shirts at Johnson and the Cape every day for years, staying up late designing things had abilities and talents that simply do not exist in NASA anymore. They had intuition, experience, skills, and lots of hard core flight time under their belts, and they ate breathed and slept Apollo.
We don't have that anymore. When the best that NASA can do is less than .500 in intact probes, all of which ran over budget, over time, and under design requirements...
We're not ready to put someone on a candle again. Ipods and GPS units in cars ain't gonna help us, our "modern technology" is all crap.