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22 days agoIt’s because it’s not a sexy mission. The astronauts never leave the ship, they’re not landing anywhere, they’re not doing anything that hasn’t been done before, and the trip is only precursor for the cool stuff that’s yet to come. Nobody remembers the space missions before the first moon landing, and nobody will remember this either.
The explicit goal of this mission is to not just to send people back to the moon, but to actually set up a base there, and that’s exciting stuff. When there is an actual moon base and scientists can travel back and forth from earth to it, the entire world will focus on it because that’s never been done before.
No, parking lots need to be developed. We can’t have functional cities when every other plot of land is dedicated to park cars.