[OftheOhio]

Buzz, I have to apologize to you for Trump. The optics of the president sitting on his rear end at the oval office desk while shaking your hand seemed disrespectful. Hell, I would have given you a big Modi hug. Hat tip, NASA helped fund several of my aerospace projects. That was a time of building the middle class and an example of the synergy of American industry.

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Perhaps someone can explain how this wrinkly, gappy, thin-skinned, taped-together, low-quality structure (below, as a composite of several official NASA photographs) is the best that 1969 US technology could manufacture as its testament to moon exploration. Or did the craft not simply not wear well in its travel to the moon?

We're now told that the technology required to transit the Van Allen Radiation Belts and go 238k to the moon and back has been lost to NASA via accidental destruction. The modern spacecraft Orion is now designed specifically to have the equivalent of six feet of lead shielding--like nothing Apollo had--to allow for safe human transit.