[cgbg]

There is a reason that unmanned space expeditions (to the moon and elsewhere) have been amazingly successful and productive, while manned exploration has been stuck in simulation mode for decades.

As I say, though—some lessons just have to be learned the hard way.

[SmokingJoe]

The only reason manned space flights to the moon and other planets stopped was because funding was stopped.
Later on, even funding for the Space shuttle was stopped too.
We have been relying on Russian rockets to get to the Space Station for approx 10 years until Elon Musk and SpaceX came along.
It was pure short sightedness on the part of congress.
Had nothing to do with alleged dangers of going to the Moon.
As far as I remember we never actually lost even one astronaut on any mission to the moon.

Thankfully, Musk now has more then enough money to fiance his superb rockets and space missions, with or without the US government , congress or Dementia Joe's super corrupt dictatorship.

[markman46]

It called political will and money to move to the moon and Mars with manned flights, lots of research is done everyday on the iss.