Add to that is while the SCIENCE hasn't changed--the ENGINEERING has.
All of that technical know-how of how to implement the science is forgotten. These rockets and systems are extremely compact highly integrated systems and when built took entire TEAMS of our best and brightest to fly. (take a look at this seuquence:
https://www.nasa.gov/history/afj/ap12fj/a12-lightningstrike.html).
Just like when you write a computer program and then come back to it in a year or two and wonder why the hell it doesn't work. Go get anything at the cutting edge of technology from 50 years ago and get it to run today. You can't, you gotta start from scratch.
Add to that our WILL. NASA was best and brightest. WAS. Not anymore--it another government claptrap of DEI. Look at those original groups of astronauts--up and down they were grade-A alpha over-achievers.
Now look at Mark Kelly.
Compare this to the OG landing--alarms going off left and right, losing comms, etc... Two cool cucumbers just out for a drive.
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Also it wasn't a shoestring budget at the time---it was HUGE. (4-8X budget of today)
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Conspiracy hacks love to troll, but science is hard. Since China would love to put egg on our face about a fake moon landing (let along Russia/USSR in the late 60s/70s) the fact that they have photos of our sites and tire tracks says something......
I know, I know, one too many shots to the head, I'm indoctrinated, vaxed, unvaxxed, liberal, neocon, troll, etc...
Sometimes we pull off miracles. Sometimes. Othertimes we do the CA hi speed rail. Its a toss up.
