>It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station.
Yeah that's my entire point, technological process doesn't have a constant rate of acceleration. Some advances are quickly made one after another and others lag and take a very long time.
How long do you think it would have taken to get a permanent moon presence if we kept up Apollo level funding indefinitely with that as the main goal? And since I only said "plausible", let's go with 80th-90th percentile best case scenario.
Even if technological progress stopped we could have launched enough parts to assemble a colony structure.
The gap between spending multiple days somewhere and spending months somewhere isn't that big.
It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station.
>It was only six years to go from the first multi-person spacecraft and first spacewalk to the first space station.
Yeah that's my entire point, technological process doesn't have a constant rate of acceleration. Some advances are quickly made one after another and others lag and take a very long time.
How long do you think it would have taken to get a permanent moon presence if we kept up Apollo level funding indefinitely with that as the main goal? And since I only said "plausible", let's go with 80th-90th percentile best case scenario.
Even if technological progress stopped we could have launched enough parts to assemble a colony structure.
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