Well...this is why. We could have owned the solar system by now. I was a senior in college during the first moon landing. “One small step...” - that one. But we gave it up. We had “problems” here in Earth, you see. So we spent trillions on these problems and what did we get? Riots this summer because of the still existing social problems.
Meanwhile, the Chicoms, who don’t care about social problems, are on the moon, and we have no present plans to go back.
It’s called surrender. Trump was a brief respite. But now we have Biden to carry the surrender torch.
Sorry, I’m just in a bad mood.
Yes, it is sad. I watched several Apollo launches in person as a child. What dreams and accomplishments we had. All lost since.
NASA dropped the torch on manned spaceflight decades ago.
Fortunately, it’s been picked up by an eccentric billionaire from South Africa.