Marshall Brain wonders about the administration’s plans to go back to the moon within 16 years. He thinks this is way too long compared with the progress made in the 60s:
“There was no NASA, no Internet, no microprocessors, no graphite composites, no cell phones, no Microsoft, no space stations….
Yet, despite our total ignorance and lack of technology, we went from NOTHING all the way to man on the moon in just 11 years. It is unbelievable when you think about it.”
The other day I was wondering about the same, while discussing the topic with others. If you think about it: NASA has all the experience, most likely calculations to put vehicles in orbit around the moon, land them and send them back with, like this. What did they do with that experience or the calculations? Why aren’t we on the moon already?
I keep thinking that the reason for this lag (so to say), is that the NASA (or the US administration) had other priorities in the mid Eighties.