We should have been on Mars by now. Despicable politicians and wars.
You are so right.
If someone had told me after the last LEM left the Moon that 50 years would pass and we wouldn’t have returned, I’d have laughed at them. Not just Mars, I believed we’d be at Europa by now.
Earth would make a wonderful game preserve.
Climate change solved.
Over 100 Saturn V launches were planned, with crewed Mars landings in the 1984 to 1986 window. No telling what we’d be doing by now.