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Originally posted by TikiMiss
so u are just going to bat me down with "conspiracy" theory when its fact that NASA has been planning and setting up a moon landing for 2021, despite the fact that they supposedly already went in 1969? If they already went, shouldn't they be able to go again in a matter of months, not years?
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The only reason the US went to the moon was because it was in a pissing contest with the Soviet Union. In the modern age there's no huge incentive to go there and that combined with other political factors I'm sure there are plenty of reasons for such a delayed mission. Maybe the funding won't kick in all the way for several years. Maybe NASA is busy with other projects now and won't have the time to dedicate it a lunar landing for several more years.
You can't plan, build, and execute a space mission like this in a matter of months anyway, even if you wanted to -- the logistics are a nightmare and a lot of the technology NASA uses is decades old.