Is there a doubt we couldn't though? I think that's what defines the moon landing as an accomplishment, it was an impressive feat, especially for the time (an E

Is there a doubt we couldn't though? I think that's what defines the moon landing as an accomplishment, it was an impressive feat, especially for the time (an ESP8266 is much more powerful than any computer they had at the time). I'm sure if you gave 20 billion more a year to NASA and said put a man in space, we could do so. It's just that quite frankly, we've out grown human beings in space, beyond simply doing so for bragging rights. You can do any kind of tests you want, with almost no limit to complexity, with robotics nowadays, and I don't believe we feel the need to "race" Russia and China to goals we've already accomplished. There's simply better ways to spend the money, research wise.