NASA Lost Technology?? #NASA #Moon #Apollo #SaturnV

Have you heard the claim that 'NASA lost the technology to go back to the moon'? Let's break it down. In 2016, retired astronaut Don Pettit made this famous statement, sparking debates about its true meaning.

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Have you heard the claim that 'NASA lost the technology to go back to the moon'? Let's break it down. In 2016, retired astronaut Don Pettit made this famous statement, sparking debates about its true meaning.


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[GeoVR]

Nasa forgot to save their game files 💀

[merxellus]

SpaceX: " Allow me to introduce myself"

[punk]

The amount of industries that are about to do this is actually insane. There is a huge amount of legacy knowledge getting ready to retire and its not getting passed down. Or new people are coming in with "better" ways. They are slowly figuring out they are repeating failures that had already been solved, but dont have the solutions that were already known.

[jumpinfool]

What happened was, back in the Saturn V development. Things were hand made, hand welded, hand tuned. Those notes from things like tuning the plates in the F-1 engine, those professionals are what was lost. What we destroyed was the skilled labor force that BUILT the Saturn V.

[genebodjtb]

"We spent so much time teaming up with the government to spy on the people we forgot how we 'sent' people to the moon."

[joshballesteros]

NASA better get their ouija board and call ol Jackie Parsons!! 😊

[chrisbrooks]

Someone who finally talks sense, since we literally have F1's in museums still.

[davidboswell]

They also said they don’t have the current at that time blueprints. During final stages many engineers went down to the floor to fix problems. They wrote the fixes down in notebooks that were never incorporated into the prints. Engineers like someone we know, could sit down, go over those prints, straighten out problems and build new birds with new tech. Could also if nasa could find them, rebuild or redesign those engines. I don’t think masa would be willing to divulge those specs.

[cjvan]

I love that all this math was done before computers. It was all done with slide rules and books of tables. The same goes for the atomic bomb. The math was done with slide rules. If you've ever seen a slide roll, the handheld device what's wrong with mathematical lines on it. The one that they use for the space program was about 10 ft long. Back then, my computer was not a device. A computer was a person who did computations. This was done by hand and brain.

[jeremyjdl]

Dustin from Smarter Every Day made a vid chastising new nasa engineers about making the new rocket too complex and finicky😂 He basically said to them yall haven’t made it to the moon once, old engineers and rockets made it there 6 times.

[blackhawkr]

He was specifically talking about the F-1 engines and the unique manufacturing techniques. When a gov contract ends, machinery is sold off and dies scrapped.

[michaelw]

In the UK we tried to update 1960s Nimrod maritine patrol aircraft. It was going to be cheaper than buying new models. Nimrod was based on Comet, the first ever jet airliner.
Each individual aircraft was originally hand fitted by highly skilled craftsmen.
The modern replacement wings were built according to the drawing specs to modern tolerences. The new wings did not fit the old airframes.

[exnihiloadnihilum]

The real problem is that much of the "making it work" parts were scrawled in little notepads, post-its, chalk boards, etc. Normal engineering nonsense when working on new developments. Much of this stuff would be tossed out, erased, or otherwise forgotten as new programs rolled in to replace the old. No one would be sitting around going "we should preserve Jerry's condesor adjustment notes in a SOP for a dead program or put it in a museum!" The janitor is just going to toss it in the bin when they clear out the office.

[BlueEyedColonizer]

Your gunna feel really dumb when you find out the earth is really flat and the moon really is made of cheese 😂

[Sincotorrapodcast]

Now I'm really starting to believe they never went to the moon in the first place .

[Penultimeat]

Back in the 60s, you had an entire set of highly specialized aerospace companies manufacturing small runs of single components, such as an extremely fast vacuum rated fuel pump. When the Apollo program ended, these mom and pop shops just moved on or died out. None of the parts suppliers exist.

[Jessamer]

I remember Gus Grissom said: " How the hell we gonna get to the moon, if we can't communicate two rooms over?

[atlantis]

he means the saturn rocket, they don’t have the saturn rocket

[lpllol]

Exactly! thank you, I’m so tired of hearing that like they lost the plans or something it’s just like if Chevrolet had to go back and remake a 1969 Camaro, SS big block four speed car. Yeah they’re not retarded. They could redo it but they don’t have the tooling the parts, the supply chain to build those anymore. They would have to start from scratch and if you use modern technology and Parts, it would look like one of the brand new Camaros. amazing how that happens, it’s called progress.🤦🏻‍♂️