I mean Nasa has to say SOMETHING. It was THEIR representatives that said we can't get through, and did you watch the guy ridiculously saying that they forgot how they went to the moon!!?
Here's something else to chew on. Just like the Global Warming debacle, they keep moving the goal posts as to when we are going back. Mind you, it's been HALF a Century!
Bush in 2004:
President Bush Offers New Vision For NASA
01.14.04
President Bush has unveiled a new vision for space exploration, calling on NASA to "gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own."
In a speech at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., the President said that the "new course for America's space program" would give NASA a new focus and clear objectives for the future.
"We do not know where this journey will end," said Bush, "yet we know this: Human beings are headed into the cosmos."
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The President's plan for steady human and robotic exploration is based on a series of goals.
First, he said, America will "finish what it started," completing the International Space Station by 2010. Research on the station will be focused on studying the long-term effects of space travel on humans, preparing for the longer journeys of the future. After the Station is complete, the Space Shuttle would be retired, after nearly 30 years of duty.
"We do not know where this journey will end, yet we know this: Human beings are headed into the cosmos."--President George W. Bush Second, the United States will begin developing a new manned exploration vehicle, called the Crew Exploration Vechicle (CEV). The first craft to explore beyond Earth orbit since the Apollo days, the spacecraft would be developed and tested by 2008 and conduct its first manned mission no later than 2014. Though its main purpose would be to leave Earth orbit, the vehicle would also ferry astronauts to and from the International Space Station after the shuttle is retired.
"Our third goal," Bush said, "is to return to the moon by 2020, as the launching point for missions beyond." He proposed sending robotic probes to the lunar surface by 2008, with a human mission as early as 2015, "with the goal of living and working there for increasingly extended periods of time."
Bush said lunar exploration could lead to new technologies or the harvesting of raw materials that might be turned into rocket fuel or breathable air.
"With the experience and knowledge gained on the moon," he said, "we will then be ready to take the next steps of space exploration: human missions to Mars and to worlds beyond."
The propsed funding for the new exploration initiative will total $12 billion over the next five years, with much of it coming from reallocation of $11 billion within NASA's current five-year budget. The president called on Congress to increase the agency's budget by roughly $1 billion spread over the next five years.
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The president also announced the formation of a commission, headed by former Secretary of the Air Force Pete Aldrich, to advise him on the implementation of the new vision.
Bush closed by acknowledging the sacrifices of fallen astronauts and looking to the future.
"We choose to explore space because doing so improves our lives and lifts our national spirit," Bush said. "So let us continue the journey."
This from the New York Times just a couple of weeks ago:
NASA Prioritizes Moon Landings Under Trump Budget Proposal
The agency would get $600 million for infrastructure and research in support of lunar missions, but astronauts won’t return until 2028 at the earliest.
THAT'S
2028!!!!
Do ya notice the goalposts keep moving back? Cmon! We're NOT stupid! Your'e tellin me, with 21st century technology, we can't do what we did BEFORE there were pocket calcualtors, 8 track tapes, cordless phones, or Disco!!!?
You can bet in a couple of yrs the goalposts will move again.