• Saganaki@lemmy.one
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      There was no need to produce the items in question, so we lost the expertise and the underlying manufacturing facilities/experience/etc. Stuff like: The company that made the windows no longer exists. The company that made the panels still exists, but they can no longer source the strictly defined % alloys as that company no longer exists. Stuff like that.

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      Also to add to the other person the literal paper files were accidentally destroyed when they were in storage in NASA.