▲ 620 ▼ Massive explosion rocks SpaceX Texas facility, Starship engine in flames (interestingengineering.com) submitted 2 years ago by 0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 230 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 child) Then why arent we building Saturn Vs? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago That's actually a really good question. The short answer is that we don't remember how to. A lot of the techniques used to actually make the parts were poorly documented. That was partly on purpose, everything was top secret because we didn't want the Russians to know how we were doing it all. And now, all the people who did those jobs have gotten old and left the industry. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago That's actually a really good question. The short answer is that we don't remember how to. A lot of the techniques used to actually make the parts were poorly documented. That was partly on purpose, everything was top secret because we didn't want the Russians to know how we were doing it all. And now, all the people who did those jobs have gotten old and left the industry. permalink fedilink source parent