How?
I'm old enough to remember Apollo, and old enough to remember that people were losing interest in it even after only 3 landings. I think it's too bad Congress killed the project when they did; they should have funded it to land in the Tycho crater and land, if only once, on the far side. (The first mission was planned, the second wasn't.)
Also, I remember a certain Democrat constituency being very ticked off about the whole enterprise.
They even put on a virtue signaling show - Rev Ralph Abernathy drove some stupid Poor People Wagon Train down to the Kennedy Space Center. Of course, the media slobbered all over it!
Dude, even if they couldn’t make a penny, spending billions means nothing to those cretins in government. Money isn’t the issue you made it out to be. It’s the fact that the technology to go there never existed and won’t for the foreseeable future.
My wife, daughter and I drove from Indianapolis to FLA to actually BE there when they lifted off for the moon!
Well; my daughter didn't drive - she was only 3 yo at the time.