Maybe that is why NASA can’t get us BACK to the moon in less than 15 years. New research methods ya know, new math, new physics. Gollllleeeee, how did they do it the last time??
1) higher budgets than are currently the case (in fact, Nixon cancelled the remainder of the moon landings because he wanted to reduce the size of NASA’s budget)
2) lower safety standards — the astronauts were test pilots, not teachers
3) less regulation — wetlands at Cocoa beach were filled in where necessary without a 10 year environmental impact study
4) less bureaucracy - design reviews were performed by a small team, not casts of thousands with power point slides
5) Congressional/Presidential committment to the task — the current President cancelled Constellation without having a replacement agreed to, and this past Congress couldn’t even pass an appropriations bill for NASA, leaving its direction in limbo
Shall I go on?
Sure, if you want to. But the fact remains when Bush told em to go back to the moon they still couldn’t do it in less than 10 or 15 years. I just don’t have any sympathy for a bureaucracy that can’t do what they have already done using more time than they needed originally.
A bloated bureaucracy that has morons running around the world warning of global warming. “Hey that idiot, we pay him to go to space projects”. An agency that can do such miraculous things as the Mars rovers, make exploration satellites to go to the edge of our universe in decades and still work. An agency that has in the past done such wonderous things and just look at them now.