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Aside from @Phr3121, @Rebound59 and a precious few others, I don't think it's properly appreciated how absurd the Saturn V (1967-73) actually was* or what it takes to send humans beyond low earth orbit, particularly if it's with the intention of having them not only land on another astronomical body but returned to Earth in one piece which will invariably be the case sans far off colonization futurism, and it's quite convenient the moon's gravity is only 1/6 of Earth's where the latter is concerned
Well, thank you my friend. Happy to see you back at Sherdog. We have the technology from the 1960s to actually have manned missions of the entire solar system. The blue-print of the nuclear version of the Saturn-V below is sitting somewhere in the NASA archives. Either NASA or a private company could build this bad boy in a few years. If the U.S. does not do it, the Chinese certainly will.
* Click on image to expand.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_(nuclear_propulsion)