Thats simply not the point. We went to the moon. That was not an easy thing to do. We developed nuclear weapons, which was certainly more difficult than establ

Thats simply not the point. We went to the moon. That was not an easy thing to do. We developed nuclear weapons, which was certainly more difficult than establishing a colony in the Gobi desert. See the excerpt of the JFK moon speech from above. "we choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard."