Why is it difficult even today to land on the Moon when the US did it almost 50 years ago with 50 year old technology?
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Difficult? Not really. We could do it. However, the Apollo program was extremely expensive, and it wouldn’t be cheaper today. They is no big benefit of going to the moon, other space missions (such as the James Webb telescope) give much more bang for the buck,
It was a different time. The moon wasn’t the objective of the mission, the objective was to get there before the Soviets. It was, quite literally, a space race. Money was not an issue, they got what they pointed at. That situation is gone.
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