[cgbg]

I hope Space X can get it done—but I think it is a lot tougher than they think it is.

Elon Musk is about to face his biggest challenge—dead bodies on the moon are really bad public relations.

[MikelTackNailer]

Many factors cited on these posts illustrate how the problem comes from a variety of reasons.

I'd like to add that the NASA culture of the 1960's and 70's were tight - as in so similar in style, tastes, educations, moral upbringings and shared mission orientation as to be seen as clones by today's diversified, socially fractured and purposely-taught-to-feel victimized generation of engineers who'd do better by learning from that era's chain-smoking, white-shirted nerds who got people to the moon and back with less computer power than today's average cell phone.