Chesnaught
(#7f96a8) [#47367d] Federal Agent
People often underestimate the amount of work and EXACT calculations that went into making all of this happen. It's not like you could keep a couple blueprints for this and have a new rocket ready to go in a year, not after this long, nor would there be any real reason to do so.
Put simply, we have the diagrams, we know the basics, but we don't have the same experts that we did, we don't have the same factories that created the parts used, and even if we built a perfect replica of the rocket we used back then, there's no guarantee that it would be good for anything. It would have to be exact, same weight, astronauts that weight exactly the same, and that also means using old, outdated technology. Why go to space with that? What would we gain from doing that? If they find a reason to go back, they'll be doing it with new stuff, and it will be expensive as hell, just like last time.
Put simply, we have the diagrams, we know the basics, but we don't have the same experts that we did, we don't have the same factories that created the parts used, and even if we built a perfect replica of the rocket we used back then, there's no guarantee that it would be good for anything. It would have to be exact, same weight, astronauts that weight exactly the same, and that also means using old, outdated technology. Why go to space with that? What would we gain from doing that? If they find a reason to go back, they'll be doing it with new stuff, and it will be expensive as hell, just like last time.