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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mz" data-source="post: 64720" data-attributes="member: 647">NASA Marshall hasn't designed rockets for a while. Space shuttle was done in the seventies, and Saturn in the sixties.There are many companies in USA that had developed successful launch vehicles though, but they cannot be used for non-technical reasons.The whole moon and other exploration architecture is not based on rational assumptions. It does not function by logic where needs would lead to solutions. Hence we get all kinds of anachronisms.It is for example a question to ask, why should MSFC even have the capability to design rockets? And acquire it in this very expensive way.</blockquote>