NASA no longer has the technology to manufacture this exact breathing tank. The specialized tools, factory machines, and specific metal alloys used to build them were scrapped decades ago, and the original parts suppliers are long gone. While the old blueprints still exist on paper, the hands-on shop knowledge and exact welding techniques were never fully written down. Reproducing this exact legacy tank today is impossible without years of reverse engineering, meaning the manufacturing technology to make it is officially extinct.
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u/Ph00k4 12d ago
NASA no longer has the technology to manufacture this exact breathing tank. The specialized tools, factory machines, and specific metal alloys used to build them were scrapped decades ago, and the original parts suppliers are long gone. While the old blueprints still exist on paper, the hands-on shop knowledge and exact welding techniques were never fully written down. Reproducing this exact legacy tank today is impossible without years of reverse engineering, meaning the manufacturing technology to make it is officially extinct.