Also lost were the company’s, and their technology, to make the components that were used to build the rockets and moon landing hardware. Much of it was fast tracked, ignoring things like drawing revisions and documentation of design changes that were done on the fly. No drawings, no parts. Tooling that was required to machine intricate parts lost or thrown away. Keep in mind, back then there was no CAD, parts were designed on drafting tables using slide rules. No pocket calculators. What didn’t get written down resided in men’s heads. When they were gone so was the capability.
I noticed you were down voted but what you said is an accurate description of how things were done "back in the day". I worked for 25 years as a quality management systems auditor. I saw the transition from paper to computers.
I lived it as an engineer. Started on the drafting board then moved to 2D cad, then 3D cad and then to solid modeling. ProEngineer and SolidWorks. I followed the space program starting as a kid. Most of the hardware used to get to the moon was the modern equivalent of one off prototypes. Machined on manual mills and lathes or at best numerical controlled machines using punch cards. People nowadays don’t have a clue how it was then. Rotary dial phones! It was the sixty’s.
Also lost were the company’s, and their technology, to make the components that were used to build the rockets and moon landing hardware. Much of it was fast tracked, ignoring things like drawing revisions and documentation of design changes that were done on the fly. No drawings, no parts. Tooling that was required to machine intricate parts lost or thrown away. Keep in mind, back then there was no CAD, parts were designed on drafting tables using slide rules. No pocket calculators. What didn’t get written down resided in men’s heads. When they were gone so was the capability.
I noticed you were down voted but what you said is an accurate description of how things were done "back in the day". I worked for 25 years as a quality management systems auditor. I saw the transition from paper to computers.
I lived it as an engineer. Started on the drafting board then moved to 2D cad, then 3D cad and then to solid modeling. ProEngineer and SolidWorks. I followed the space program starting as a kid. Most of the hardware used to get to the moon was the modern equivalent of one off prototypes. Machined on manual mills and lathes or at best numerical controlled machines using punch cards. People nowadays don’t have a clue how it was then. Rotary dial phones! It was the sixty’s.
I just went back and read some of the posts, a lot of really dumb people on here and proud of it. Very sad. The dumbing down of America.