OK, so we’ve established in your mind it’s all bullshit. Got it.
What’s the showstopper to getting out of earth orbit, in your opinion? Is it safe to assume they are still faking this in the upcoming Artemus program as well?
Artemis is trying to do it.
They are having many problems.
They have outsourced the crew quarters (equivalent of the command module and lunar module) to the European Space Agency and they are totally stumped. They don’t even know where to start.
The best hope (imho) is Elon Musk because he is willing to take some big risks to make it happen.
My view is he will figure it out—but there will be dead astronauts—because this stuff is really difficult.