> It’s 55 years later, and Artemis 2 is just planned for next year to do a manned lunar orbit. And MAYBE a landing rig and walk for 2025. We’re using 2023 metho

> It’s 55 years later, and Artemis 2 is just planned for next year to do a manned lunar orbit. And MAYBE a landing rig and walk for 2025. We’re using 2023 methods and engineering to develop suits that will work. We have vastly more computing and skills and materials. Our rockets are 50 years better. I'll be the first to talk shit about the SLS, but we've spent about 1/5 as much money so far, inflation-adjusted, and public projects in general are way more expensive now. We're also way worse at building subway tunnels—slower and less efficient per dollar spent. Like, a lot worse. It's a pretty worrisome trend, but isn't confined to NASA. [EDIT] My point is, our burn-rate in costs is far lower, and that money, even inflation-adjusted, doesn't go as far these days when we try to use it to build Real Things, so it's not that surprising it's taking longer, even with better tech. It also seems to have been mis-managed more than a little, to a degree that Apollo wasn't—but Apollo was far more high-profile, so was less likely to be allowed too much mis-management.