>>510911468>what kind of founding is needed to strap foiling with duct tape to a lunchbox and throw it in space? >the whole thing is a copeIt's not a cope, do you have any idea what parts of the project were so expensive?
It's bringing up all that stuff outside the earthy gravity well
Once could repeat the same pattern nowadays and it'd be somewhat cheaper because we no longer need to wind magnetized ferrite beads for static program memory and shit like that but there is no point because we need better mechanisms of reaching the moon and leaving the earths gravity well.
The tapes aren't lost you shizophrenic retard
Yes, the women and men that wound the program memories are dead or arthritic and the old technology isn't the goal anyways
Yes, the industrial capacity and money thrown at the project was massive, do you have any idea how many rockets they sent up to get the requisite things assembled to make that trip to the moon?
Again for you, re-written for your stubborn dumb and conspiritardational mind: THERE IS A NEW TECHNOLOGICAL/PROCEDURAL BOUND TO LEAP OVER, THAT MOON MISSION WAS A HISTORICAL ONE-OFF
It's like with fancy knight armor - sure, it can and has been reproduced today but you're like a retard asking why the military or bodyguard industry isn't using it.
It's like that but at a massive many-billion-dollar scale and the technological context has completely changed.
There is no point to repeating the Apollo program.
It's both easier and harder
The new goals are harder to achieve, recreating the past mission/technology profile would be easier today.
But again: it makes no fucking sense because the goal is to get there without needing 111m tall rockets.
If we don't find another way we will remain a monoplanetary specis.
Death to elon and death to oligarchs by the way, the obstruct true progress in these areas because the obstruct social and civilizational progress like the nobility of old.