[SunkenCiv]

Yeah, Armstrong didn’t like the look of the landing site when it got close enough to notice details, and used some of the downward thrust to push the LM to a smooth area, landing with less than 30 seconds (some sources say 10 seconds) of fuel. AI and/or time-delayed Earthbound piloting aren’t (yet) up to the task.

[MikelTackNailer]

I think these two missions demonstrate that AI can not replace a human being's combined innate and learned abilities when dealing with unknowns. Neil relied on his guts and learning at the end for a successful landing when the technology was failing him after three days of physical hell and almost no sleep. Now days NASA can't do a damned thing without 15 red tape organizations delaying them or getting in the way.

"Do we have enough black women mathematicians? Are there enough homosexuals testing critical components? Are there too many Asians working out logistics? How much will the impact of the launch effect the surrounding weeds and insects?"

They've been wasting millions of our dollars agonizing over that sort of crap for decades, hindering the progress a few hundred chain-smoking white nerds accomplished with slide rules and less computer power than today's average cell phone.

So I consider anyone getting off this rock with bureaucracy being more of an obstacle than breaking the orbital plane heroic.