You can engineer almost anything, given an unlimited budget.
The benefits of the space program have been tremendous.
However, it is time to commercialize space, and reap the benefits of capitalism and competition.
It would be nice to have something like the homestead bill for the solar system.
Are you saying the Artemis budget is too low?
I agree that private Musk Falcons are going up with the reliability of Henry Ford’s Model T’s, and I surely get that. Private is better, sure. I watch night launches blasting into they sky every other week, when they are on a NE trajectory. (I can’t see all the others going SE.)
But why can’t NASA build another Saturn V+ that works, 50 years on, given all the massive advances in computing power, metallurgy, composite tech etc etc since 1970?
Sometimes I feel we are going in the “devolution” direction of savages in Central America, who come upon old jungle-covered Mayan pyramids, and don’t have clue who built them or how.
Dumb and dumber. Idiocracy.
It’s not a good feeling, America getting stupider and less capable.