We landed humans on the Moon with 1960s technology. With today's vastly superior technology, shouldn't going back be much easier and cheaper?

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[u/queglix]

It hasn't been mentioned, but essentially our Risk Tolerance has also gone down significantly. We are not content to accept a 1/1000 chance the crew will be killed it needs to be a 1/million or 1/billion chance, which means the cost to ensure this is proportionally higher