why can we not go to the moon now with new technology and we were able to go years ago

Question: why can we not go to the moon now with new technology and we were able to go years ago
- Keywords:
  moon,
  space,
  technology
Asked by nwilkinson18 to Cathal on 13 Nov 2013.
- Cathal Cummins answered on 13 Nov 2013:
  
  We can still go to the moon. The problem is that it’s very expensive to go to the moon — think of all the rocket fuel and materials — and governments don’t see the advantage in going anymore as “it has already been done”. Sure, we landed space buggies on Mars just recently!

Question: why can we not go to the moon now with new technology and we were able to go years ago