Oh, really? You consider that proof, something everyone should believe in, from 18 well-compensated government employees?
And how many people in the DOJ and elsewhere in government--many highly educated and well-compensated lawyers--worked on fictitious claims of probable cause that Trump colluded with and was a compromised tool of Russia? Dozens? Hundreds? With thousands if not millions of believers in tow? How much were such false representations worth absent real evidence?
Consider the evidence in this post..
Though you say, "The reason we've not been back [to the moon] is the cost and a lack of political will," an official NASA spokesman, shuttle astronaut, and Ph.D in chemistry, freely spews lies to say otherwise:
Unlike so many posts on this thread, I believe posters on FR should debate ideas using evidence and sound reasoning.
Some 30 years ago, when I was half my present age, I was working a software navigation tool development for the crew of space shuttle STS-51. As a guest of the astronaut core, I was asked to join a dinner party with the crew and Hoot Gibson, lead astronaut at the time. An unexpected guest at dinner turned out to be Charlie Duke, one of the moon walkers. I was pretty much a fly on the wall for most of the conversation but it was still quite an experience to be in the presence of such a legend.
The ignorant comments by some here on this forum are sad. That is all I can say about such ignorant posters, when compared to the giants and heroes who make this country great. Feel free to crawl back under your rock.