Lots of money, only landing two people in a foil can with very little additional payload capacity, and not staying very long. Apollo cost something like $300 b

Lots of money, only landing two people in a foil can with very little additional payload capacity, and not staying very long. Apollo cost something like $300 billion in 2023 dollars. NASA's contract for the Starship landing is $2.9b. SLS development has been around $12b with a marginal cost of $4b per launch. All together the Artemis program (SLS, Orion, Lunar Gateway Space Station, and Landers) is estimated to cost around $93b through 2025. The Apollo LEM had a payload capacity in the neighborhood of 1T. The Starship Lunar Lander is supposed to handle 100T+