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NASA is scaling back its Moon plans, and saying a 2026 human landing on the Moon is unfeasible.
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I'm legitimately shocked there was anything to scale back in the first place.
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BIG thing that is often not mentioned: Lobbyists made congress ban the use of ICBM motors for civilian space flight.
Meaning every.
Single.
Rocket.
Has to be made from scratch. Literally thousands of the things are just sitting there and used to be used until they were banned, and with the scrapping of the Space Shuttle platform things just aren't that good anymore.
Also massive brain drain. Several people have said that NASA just no longer has the people or knowledge so a lot of stuff that is classified or lost has to be reinvented.
The same affects ice breakers for example -- The people who understand how to make ship hulls are dead, retired or somewhere else.
We're seeing a deterioration of technology in real time.