(June 13, 2014 at 9:51 am)Rhythm Wrote: No, we're not perfectly capable. We're busy reverse engineering our own old rockets so that we have a launch vehicle capable of making any such trip again. Some of our best stuff is currently attached to warheads...but even they aren;t capable of pushing a manned craft there. We still have a few of the old ones laying around but due to some truly hilarious fuckups we no longer fully understand how or why they work the way they do.
(that's why they're planning to use our old rockets btw Nap..just as soon as they figure out where the power switch is)
This is what happens when you gut your space program......
I'm pretty sure if you put the resources into NASA like you do with your defence budget you'd overcome these problems pretty easily. Like I said, the problem isn't that you simply can't, it's that you don't want to.
