I'm not sure we'd be able to send another Apollo mission nowadays to get you back from the moon, though. I used to work at Fermilab, the largest US particle ph

I'm not sure we'd be able to send another Apollo mission nowadays to get you back from the moon, though. I used to work at Fermilab, the largest US particle physics laboratory. There was this ridiculous thing that mid-year, our funding would run dry (because congress decided after the fact to cut our funding, or because there was no budget to begin with) and we would be sent on furlough (mandatory unpaid leave). Thank god I was paid by an external institute. Now I work for IHEP, the institute which is behind the CEPC (though I'm not working on that project). I share the opinion that it is currently much more likely for such a large project to succeed in China than in the US (which surprized me a bit in the beginning). It's the difference between being able to plan a few years in advance, vs. not having a budget for more than the next six months.