[2dollars27cents]

I'm sure this is a valid point, but I think it is overemphasized.

Much of that tribal knowledge would have been very esoteric and focused on technologies that are no longer critical. for example, fabricating magnetic core memory. I'm sure some of the required skill is gone, but we don't need to use that memory technology anymore.

[sigstoat]

having been involved in spacecraft operations, it has nothing to do with how the memory is wired up.

there would've been a huge amount of knowledge about how to operate apollo spacecraft in general. there is no way it is preserved.

and this thread is beneath a comment suggesting that we don't start from scratch, and reuse apollo designs. as you point out, we can make better stuff now. the only value to the apollo designs would be if we had operational experience to go with them.

[fsloth]

I think the computer aspects are not the most difficult part of the tech stack when dealing with space flight.

[sandworm101]

Tell that to Boeing. Thier last flight didn't make it to the space station because of two computer errors. Had that happened over the moon, people likely would have died.