I'm not a rocket scientist and you seem to be very knowledgeable. However, I feel like you are overstating the problems and should drink some of that "homo fabe

I'm not a rocket scientist and you seem to be very knowledgeable. However, I feel like you are overstating the problems and should drink some of that "homo faber can do anything he/she wants" cool aid. ;-) I mean, "psychology of isolation" come on! People have been in super tiny submarines for months, while water bombs are exploding around them all night long. And thats at least two generations ago. I doubt that von Braun and co. had solved all the problems for flying to the moon, when Kennedy set the goal. I have no doubts that they would have put a man on Mars soon after, had the program continued. When the Saturn V was retired, humanity was put four decades back - and counting. Its only a question of will. Do we want to have nicer cars or advance the frontier of humanity?