Charley - we’re broke. We can’t go to the moon no matter how cheap the ride. A penniless man can’t afford a $50 clunker to drive.
Sadly we’re broke because short-sighted politicians bowed to insane enviromental lobbyists and thereby forced us to send our wealth to people that hate us,in exchange for oil to keep our immediate needs met.The nation that sent men to the Moon also had a strong manufacturing economy and wasn’t buying its consumer goods fromCommunist China
Then we engaged in hugely expensive wars to fight those funded by our wealth.
I’ve always found it interesting that Nixon was hounded from office after strongly supporting Israel and then calling for America’s energy independence.