And no one would be ok today with the risks taken in those launches. Human spaceflight is more about mitigating risk than anything. Apollo was getting there fi

And no one would be ok today with the risks taken in those launches. Human spaceflight is more about mitigating risk than anything. Apollo was getting there first, so there was a willingness to take more risks. Also, NASA at the time had a humongous budget compared to today, adjusted for inflation [1] and it was a lot more focused on just getting to the moon. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budget_of_NASA