After having been involved with a couple of NASA programs/systems in the past when I was doing research, I can certainly understand why it very likely won’t be NASA that goes back to the moon. They are gun shy from their two shuttle disasters and the resulting CYA bureaucracy isn’t equipped for innovation or success.
Elon has got to do the heavy lifting.
My concern with him is that taking risks is a good plan for unmanned missions to work out the kinks in the tech—but a very dangerous one with humans on board.
NASA had real dead bodies as the price of failure—quite a few actually.....
This is going to be hard—very hard.
I am not sure folks have the stomach for what comes next.