NASA. History Design the Future

Visitors to Kennedy Space Center in Florida recently poured into the Saturn V Center and watched curiously as a small group of lab-coated experts surrounded an aluminum box about the size of a file cabinet. NASA had commissioned the team to inspect an umbilical connection from an Apollo-era spacecraft. The agency is seeking to tap the experience of past engineers as it develops Orion, the new crew exploration vehicle for the Constellation Program.

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[NeutralNegotiator]

@MightySaturn5 Agreed and the fact is that while people think that technology is moving rapidly, there is much time since a real breakthrough. But this is to be expected...the breakthrough in 1960-70 whappened because the 2 top powers were competing for innovation and high technologies that would give them the advantage.Now with the US and Russia only caring about finding more oil anyway possible, i expect the next breakthrough to happen from China or India

[MightySaturn5]

@NeutralNegotiator yeah, between physics being a constant and such a huge technological push during Apollo much of the engineering is about as good as it gets, I mean there are improvements everywhere (mainly in computing power vs.size) however nothing as drastic as the technology jump we experienced from 1960-1970.

[NeutralNegotiator]

Are you telling me that there is a whole mechanism of the Apollo shuttle that was not analysed in detail in engineering drawings up to its last inch?

Hell yeah, next time you deside to built a new aircraft go and take a look at the wright brothers plane to see their yaw steering system and get ideas...are we getting more and more dumb or what?

[MightySaturn5]

@dcb1138 lol

[dcb1138]

@rocketboy734---- No...the Apollo program janitors did...are you kidding me ?

[britishareawesome69]

yes

[rocketboy734]

did aerospace engineers build and design this.