Comments by "MRA" (@yassassin6425) on "Back to the Moon - Part 2 | VOANews" video.
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It has not been possible to fly on a passenger aircraft between London and New York in under three hours for 22 years. I don't think we have gone backwards in technology.
Man last walked on the moon 52 years ago (not 53) and Project Artemis has completely different technology, mission objectives and profiles to Apollo. All this needs development, testing and validation.
The USA stopped going to the moon because in the midst of an expensive foreign war, growing public apathy and disquiet, a lack of political will and the looming OPEC crisis, Congress withdrew the funding in 1972. They saw little benefit in continuing to plough such a high percentage of the annual federal budget into continuation of something that had already been achieved. The Apollo Programme was cancelled meaning that the manufacturing plants, the processes, the bespoke tooling, the expertise was either retired or moved on, whilst production of the heavy lift capability ceased and no one build a replacement for the Saturn V. Powerful lobbying for the folly of the Space Shuttle Programme shifted the emphasis upon low Earth orbit and the subsequent construction of the ISS meant that space exploration became the preserve of much cheaper unmanned probes and landers that did not require a heavy lift rocket. The old technology of Apollo has become obsolete and defunct.
We now have the SLS and Space X are developing Starship/Super Heavy Booster and new technologies are being applied, purposed and developed to return crewed missions to the moon and beyond, whilst also. like I said, fulfilling very different objectives and mission profiles to those of Apollo. Project Artemis was only approved as recently as 2018 and this takes time and money.
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