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It is also a lot easier, safer, and less expensive to make an 8 minute trip into low-orbit to resupply ISS than a few days to land where you want to land on the moon.
And if something goes awry, you can jump into the Soyuz docked there for the purpose, separate, de-orbit and be back. Of course, the ISS is also protected from solar flare radiation by the Van Allen belts. A moon base would need a lot of shielding. (By careful observation, you can predict major solar flares in advance (most of the time), and that was done for the Apollo missions. For long-duration stays, you must have a plan that lets you survive a flare.)
Well, if it wasn't a moon landing then it was a back lot at NASA Clear Lake which was terraformed to make like the moon, or some close representation. The country's biggest sand box.
Do you have anything useful to say about anything, ever?
"Useful"
Now THAT'S an interesting term.
Since the moon issue was launched by politicians as a national ego necessity . . .
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?
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