Posted: 06 February 2016 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | 7
|
|
|
Both the long and short answer to that is "no."
Apart from computers, running through a list of what is better about modern rockets are mostly cost-related improvements often applied to the same engines designed during that period.
The main difference today is that Apollo was a time which proved if you throw enough money, manpower and talent at something, you can get it to work, and work quickly. Sure, that's unsustainable, but look what they did!
Astronauts were my first "real life" heroes. For better or worse, what they did changed what sort of person I became. Now that we're looking back on their lives, I would hope that what they accomplished was a humble beginning to a Great New Era, rather than just the crowning achievement of an iffy one.
|