"bob haller" wrote in message
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plus the apollo era engineers today are all very old or dead. theres a
experince gap, espically mportant with a multi year mission with no
chance of resupply

So what has NASA been doing since Apollo, nothing? Don't you think that
shuttle, Mir, and ISS experience counts for something?

Jeff

the shuttle was designed back in 1970. so those engineers are probably
all retired.


And unfortunately NO engineer worked on it since then and NONE of these
engineers passed on their skills to a new generation.

Seriously Bob, this is the best you can do?


Mir too was designed in russia a long time ago... engineers aged and
retired

while ISS was designed not that long ago its not a exploration
vehicle, its about orbital long term operations



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