I’m kinda confused… I see the Space X test launch approaching and I’m just mind blown.
We went to the moon in 1969 ya? Why is it so difficult to re enact that? Why is SpaceX doing it and not NASA? I’ve seen/heard of a few unsuccessful test runs but I’m not super up to date with our space journeys. But don’t we have this technology/engineering capability?
I don’t mean to be arrogant but can someone explain it to me?
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The Apollo program was Very expensive for its time. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA#/media/File:NASA-Budget-Federal.svg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA)
We were in a race to the Moon against the Russians with that as the goal. Once we got there it was hard to justify continuing that spending level. The technology that went into the Apollo could be reconstructed, but it would be more expensive as it depended on analog equipment that doesn’t exist anymore, and it was pretty dangerous, but the best we could do at the time. We hope to replace it with a more modern and more reusable system.
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