Um, I thought we went to the moon, multiple times??
Why with all our increased technology, is it sooooo hard to get back??
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Because all those guys and gals are dead...........
Mainly because we’re not willing to spend money on it.
“ Why with all our increased technology, is it sooooo hard to get back??”
Indeed. I wonder the same thing myself. NASA did it before with computers that had a tiny fraction of the power of your cell phone.
Because we let the manufacturing companies go defunct and didn't pass the knowledge down to the younger generations of engineers. Then we seeded everyone with the mistaken notion that we never went there in the first place.
It is not so much the “how to” but the “how much” that has been the problem. I have seen at least a half dozen proposals, all of which were deemed to be too expensive. We have been working on the program that eventually became Artemis since the turn of the Century.