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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Its not so much we can’t as we just aren’t motivated to.
The original space race was a massive flexing contest between the USA and the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War. And the moon missions were both insanely expensive and insanely dangerous(and very lucky).
Once that was over, there wasn’t exactly much reason to return to the moon. There’s currently no substantial monetary or political motivation, and purely for the sake of scientific curiosity doesn’t exactly win over the budgets of politicians. So for the last 50 years, nobody has really saved plans or been developing improved technology to go to the moon, and any attempts to do so today are likely to be met with a much more limited budget and stricter standards on safety on top of having to basically redo a lot of the planning and work from the original missions.
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