Roscosmos atleast still have all the plans and drawings for the Soyuz family. NASA literally can't build another Saturn 5 rocket becuase all the companies that originally built it either merged or folded and most of the technical documentation is lost. NASA of course didn't try and archive any of it becuase it was the intellectual property of the five thousand subcontractors they used
That's crazy. I believe you, but I would love to know more if you have any suggested reading (also, a certain friend of mine will never believe me unless I have a source)
Edit: this article from Forbes is pretty good: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/12/11/how-we-lost-the-ability-to-travel-to-the-moon/?sh=5591709a1f48
Roscosmos atleast still have all the plans and drawings for the Soyuz family. NASA literally can't build another Saturn 5 rocket becuase all the companies that originally built it either merged or folded and most of the technical documentation is lost. NASA of course didn't try and archive any of it becuase it was the intellectual property of the five thousand subcontractors they used
Truly a deeply deranged system
That's crazy. I believe you, but I would love to know more if you have any suggested reading (also, a certain friend of mine will never believe me unless I have a source)
Edit: this article from Forbes is pretty good: https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2015/12/11/how-we-lost-the-ability-to-travel-to-the-moon/?sh=5591709a1f48