Which Apollo landing site would you revisit?

"Jay Windley" wrote:

Would you like to have a car that got 100 miles per gallon and would keep
you alive in crashes up to 70 miles per hour? We can give that to you, but
would you be willing to pay $1,500,000 for it? Rather than produce
perfectly safe, wonderfully efficient cars that no one can afford, we
produce cars in a range of compromises between features and affordability.
There is a constraint that cars have to be affordable to the majority of the
general public. That limits what engineering can go into them.

And automobiles have an advantage that the Shuttle, in fact almost any
reusable booster, can never have. To wit; Development costs can be
amortized over dozens of years of production and thousands (if not
tens of thousands) of individual units.

OTOH, this advantage does come at a cost; anything that goes into the
automobile must be amenable to mass production.

D.
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