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?
In: Engineering
It’s not hard to get to the moon. It’s just expensive. When we landed on the moon in ~~1968~~ 1969, NASA’s budget was around 8% of all federal spending. By today’s standards that would be around $400B. We could easily get to the moon again if we spent that again. What’s hard is the private sector trying to do it on 1/1000 the budget.
Edit: fat fingered a digit. Ya’ll are over thinking this
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