Artemis I vs Apollo 11: Why has it taken NASA so long to return to the moon?

In 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin planted an American flag on the moon, and became the first humans to step foot there. Decades later, NASA, in partnership with several companies, are hopeful of making a return trip to the moon.

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[mstem]

Unfortunately a combination of governments changing NASA’s goals every 10 years, and contracters like Boeing not wanting to change the technology too much means that it as taken a while, but also means that the actual rocket isn’t too different to the Saturn V.

[thespiritstingray]

Waiting for all the comments trying to say the moon landings were faked

[eddiekulp]

If not for shuttle technology they would be another 10 years and probably 100 billion more

[SeldomPooper]

why they keep calling it 15% more powerful even though the payload it can deliver is less than the Saturn V ?

[dalethelander]

The $4.1B is just for launch operations. Orion-SLS has cost $21B to develop and build over the past 11 years.

[Patrick-yhyd]

Maybe because a big waste of money will no results?