Why does it seem so challenging now to send a manned crew to the moon, when we were able to accomplish this over 50 years ago?
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The issue is money. 50 years ago the money was spent because of national security. Today we can’t figure out the business model to make this work. Part of the frustrating part of that is that we know that once we get there we can do some amazingly valuable things. We could construct spaceships that are the stuff of science fiction today. We could prep fuel for ships traveling to other planets and harvest metals and resources that are next to impossible to find on Earth. But you kind of need that whole ecosystem to be in place before any of those things are valuable.
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