[dhs12345]

How long did it take us in the 60s and with old technology.

[Bernard]

Kennedy's inauguration address would have been January 24, 1961 so the first landing in July 1069 was 8 1/2 years later. But, there was a lot of work done before Kennedy's speech. And this was a different country then. More get it done and less get the paperwork done first.

On the other hand, it would be nice to see it happen during President Trump's second term.....

[Zhang Fei]

[How long did it take us in the 60s and with old technology.]

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The NASA budget in the 1960’s was pretty much devoted to space. Today, we’ve got climate research and a bunch of other irrelevant things in there. I bet they also have race and gender quotas reducing the number of people who actually do things other than push paper. And the annual budgets for the moonshot era were 50% to 100% higher than today’s number in inflation-adjusted terms.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA

[sparklite2]

I remember how cool it was to see
the video feedback from the nose
of a missile as it crashed into the
moon. These were the closet images
of the lunar surface ever made up
until then. This is an amazing time to
be alive, astronomy-wise.

[StormEye]

"How long did it take us in the 60s and with old technology."

Apollo 8 orbited the Moon in Dec. 1968.
We landed July 1969.
I don't remember when Pres. Kennedy committed the USA
to reach the Moon. Was it in 1961?
So it took maybe seven/eight years with 1960's tech.
And people now act so wimpy about doing it
now with 21st Century technology.

[EEGator]

White dudes, no PC bullshit, and no HR cornhole meetings.

[grey_whiskers]

How long did it take us in the 60s and with old technology.

That was before diversity and affirmative action.