a flawless six for six using 1960's tech: https://www.history.com/news/us-moon-landings-apollo
the past is a foreign country
the past is a foreign country
It's a nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
Seems pretty sweet to me.
I'd probably be fired when they found out I hadn't read anything written since the 70s....
The Soviet Union is even more foreign with 50's tech and no human to aid primitive computers.
Better failure rate than the last 12 months of international moon landings.
At some point I wanted to go to places or in an amount of time or with cargo that a bike wouldn't allow.
The Artemis program is doing something similar but not the same as Apollo. It's different so it requires a change in the architecture which in turn means a series of problems because change is hard. Which truthfully is the exact same thing Apollo went through. Apollo was only six for six if you ignore everything that went before it. If you look the events before Apollo 11 it's easy to see that there were difficulties.
The jumps (4 feet) and bounds (15 feet) are pretty good by everyday standards, but like half of the Earth-bound records.
The revenue for this would pay for several Starships.
Maybe a sport like Quidditch could become a reality