[Campion]

“Common sense” suggests to people that it’s 50 years later and we can’t get people there now, how could it be possible 50 years ago.

Ask them about the Concorde: 15 years ago you could fly across the Atlantic at Mach 2; now you can't. Why? Easy: technology that doesn't pay for itself eventually shuts down when the financing goes away.

Apollo was exactly the same. No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

[Cold Heart]

Two Thousand years ago the steam engine was invented.
The first commercial steam engine went to work in 1712

[tomkat]

No bucks, no Buck Rogers.

Perfect line, perfect delivery !