>There absolutely are justifiable reasons and those reasons have worked out very well for the U.S. in the past. Apollo quickly lost funding and popular support

>There absolutely are justifiable reasons and those reasons have worked out very well for the U.S. in the past. Apollo quickly lost funding and popular support once the Cold War in space was effectively over. Space Shuttle ran on its fumes, and it had to be designed partially as a warplane in order to get additional funds from USAF that NASA couldn't get otherwise. SLS is an extension of that. Also, we're living in 2025, not 1965. The reasons of the past do not translate perfectly to today. >And as to whether we have the money for it, the U.S. is the wealthiest it has ever been and certainly much wealthier than we were in the 60s. We are also literally many trillions in debt. There are many things we should be doing and arguably none of that involves another Moon program just for the sake of it. Been there, done that; we don't have the money.