Why is it so hard to return to the moon?

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Published 2024-05-16
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If we went to the Moon already, why can’t we go back so easily? What technology have we lost? What are we trying to do differently? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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All Comments (21)
  • @vettman63
    Thank you for not using AI generated narration like so many channels have defaulted to.
  • @maxpayne2337
    When you bought a car in the 60's. Your owner manual gave instructions on how to adjust your valve lash. Today, your manual warns against drinking the antifreeze. Society has become "stupidy".
  • @brettrun8575
    Pretty impressive that you can take less than five minutes worth of talking points and stretch it out for over 30 minutes.
  • @beemrmem3
    Imagine we spent 800billion on space exploration instead of war...
  • That’s ludicrous that we couldn’t rebuild a Saturn V rocket today, I do not believe that for a second. The other idea that we lost some of the technology we used is also preposterous.
  • @jimchirdon432
    With modern technology it should be easier not harder
  • @steveurkel1487
    $300 billion moon landing budget 1960s politicians: "Let's not and say we did"
  • @coisasnatv
    Forgot to mention NASA also "lost" about 14.000 tapes with telemetry data from the Apollo project, vanish, gone.
  • One possibility is that we never actually went there in the first place. Or maybe it's just that tragic loss of all that data that is such a "painful process" to get back.
  • @garyfuzz2434
    The more they explain how they’re going to do it ,makes you realise they nvr done it the first place😂
  • Interesting that it could be done in the 1960’s with one launch, but now we need 20… very interesting. Anyone believe this?
  • @Brand-ju4jm
    It is hard to do again something that was never done originally
  • @dr.merlot1532
    I have a solution to going back to where we have never been to. However it requires time travel.
  • @cwb0110
    So Ukraine receives the entire Artimus budget every quarter? Yeah! Makes sense
  • @ejaydc8198
    "Space maybe the final frontier but its made in a hollywood basement" - Californication RHCP
  • @markdavid7013
    If we as a species didn't spend so much money and effort on ways to destroy ourselves..maybe we could accomplish this and a lot more. 🤔
  • @notsparks
    Boeing is the primary SLS contractor so I'm going to bet on odds of the door flying off mid flight and the project being grounded for years.
  • @jg3368
    Cant go back because Stanley Kubrick died.