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Old 05-12-2021, 07:47 AM   #7531 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Rusty View Post
A lot of the technology they pushed aside for now just isn't cost efficient yet. Once they get the cost under control, then we will see it. 10 to 15 yrs later. If NASA ever at their act together like they did for the Apollo missions. You would see an explosion of tech. Funny thing is. NASA can't build the F1 rocket motors for the Saturn booster any more. They don't know how the engineers did it back then. All the notes were lost.
I worked with an older guy and he was saying back in the day he was in full production on a missile program for years when they announced on tv that they were gonna look into trying to find funds in the budget to try and engineer and come up with a possible prototype.
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