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Considering the advancements in technology, miniturizing computers, etc, can anyone tell me why we find reproducing the Apollo missions so prohibitively complicated/expensive? We should be able to do it with the computing power of a cell phone. And yet... where are we?
I cannot resolve this technological incongruity for the life of me. And if the balloon launch, as well as many other grass-roots accomplishments such as Spaceship 1 are any example, the statements made by NASA/JPL scientists/engineers represent a gross underestimation of our technological capability. So, this being the supposition, WHY are these missions so prohibitive?
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