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Originally Posted by golfnutt
Yes. Agree.
Just surprised that no attempt has even been made in 40+ years by any country or private entity. Or groups of countries and entities.
The Chinese have landed on the moon, while India, Japan and Europe all have lunar orbiters. None of those were manned, but why would you want to take humans up there? Humans require more room than their size, large amounts of oxygen, a very narrow temperature range, are very sensitive to radiation and most importantly it is considered very poor form to just leave them up there, so you'll have to make the ship able to return to earth.
The age of manned spaceflight (beyond LEO) seems to be over as a result of advances in technology.