Looking Back. We really have not done much since landing on the moon. You would think more would be done. And of course other theories. Filmed in a Hollywood basement.
The technology to make the Saturn rocket engine has been lost. It was hand crafted. It was superior to anything today. Good old Werner and countless old school engineers and welders. Computers cannot duplicate what they did.
Thanks for posting the above video. I'm a bit of a railroad nut and a few years ago the question of whether or not the United states has the infrastructure to build a full-size steam railroad locomotive came up. The participants were about evenly divided yes or no.
A lot would need to be fabricated I bet. Most guys that could do that stuff are dying or dead. Most engineers today can just sit at their computers.
Wasn’t that guy we got from Germany (Hitlers engineer) Scientest. After WWII. Didn’t he help us get on the moon. The man was brilliant. Watched it on a Documentary. The said with out him never would have happened.
No, the technology to build the Saturn V was not lost, simply discarded in favor or more expensive and less reliable ideas. I remember reading an article in Time Magazine after the Challenger disaster. A (then-retired) Thiokol engineer or contractor looked into the "big dumb booster" (i.e. a huge-ass keresone torch like the Saturn V) concept as opposed to the the shuttle's soliod-rocket booster system (SRBs) and found that the risks, reliability, and costs of the BDB were significantly lower. He was then told by his supervisors that they were in this to make money, that they could make far more money researching, designing, building, and perfecting SRBs than by using some cheap-ass BDB, and to never mention it again to anyone. It's like the B-52. Still in service after all these years, so why can't we build more? Uh, because it isn't the latest and greatest shiny object and because there aint no money to made or spent building B-52's.
And I doubt anyone could economically build a steam locomotive. But if you ordered 50 of them someone would knock them out quite expeditiously.
My Dad had a decent roll for 4 years as an Engineer for the Apollo program. This is a photo from his site. Not bad for a New England lobsterman with an engineering degree.
Oh for the love of god.. yep no fabricators or innovators left in this world. "Back in my day we walked barefoot".....
This is about the moon walk. I remember being at McDonalds parking lot on rt 422, hanging out with my car buddies. The one guy had the radio on and they were broadcasting it live. It was almost beyond belief that 1, we were listening to it live and secondly that Neil Armstrong was actually walking on the moon. In the 60’s Astronauts were bigger than rock stars. Local tribute to Apollo 11 and especially to Neil Armstrong. The site is at the small airport where Neil took his first flight. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/19634
Watch the video, yes a lot of the knowledge was lost. Specifically hand written notes on how to fabricate things.
There were several other engineers who were Germans and some actually Nazis(real ones) one guy had two huge scars on his face.
