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In response to "Ha! The kid has been assigned to watch Armageddon and write something about changes in technology since the film." by spamlet

So I'm guessing the topic is the technology depicted in the movie as opposed to that used in making the movie?

So like the resuable part of current launch vehicles come virtually straight back down instead of that gliding stuff?

Though the manned portion has gone full circle back to capsules and parachutes as Space X didn't think they could get certification for the rocket slowed version of the capsule.

There's kind of a problem that a bunch of the technology in the film never existed so how does one say how things changed when some of it never was / never will be. There never were souped up shuttles, never will be since the fleet was retired as expensive, technological dead end.

Never was, never will be simultaneous launches...of shuttles.

Though I guess Mir had a big change in that it was de-orbited.

Oh! Back in the days of Armageddon, US Astronauts could get to orbit on US Hardware. That's currently no longer the case but fingers crossed could change this year.

I'll have to rewatch to see what their Mission Control looked like but NASA did do an update to the real Mission Control that might have been after Armageddon.

Geez, most of this stuff sounds like we've regressed as far as a space faring species ;-)

Though I guess that has a bunch to do with a lot of our advancement has gone in the opposite direction with regards to scale. More people launching smaller stuff as opposed to figuring out how to send redundant crews of oil drillers to an asteroid.

I wonder how much oil rig technology has changed.



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