> a new generation of engineers will become fluent in what we have already discovered.
We seem to have lost the technology of going to the moon we gained from Apollo. So without an actual follow-up and a tangible long term plan I suspect the exact same will happen this time around.
Yeah, that's probably an indication that we waited too long.
> We seem to have lost the technology of going to the moon we gained from Apollo
Some of it. Much for good reason. What are you referring to that we’ve lost that we would want?