Artemis II is NASA’s first crewed mission under the Artemis program and will launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It will send NASA
It takes a lot less to launch a rocket from the lunar surface to anywhere in the solar system than from earth. If we ever get manufacturing working on or around the moon then it opens up a lot of possibilities for larger payloads. This means we can send more further and it makes the whole process cheaper.
Right now, yes. If it was as commoditized as putting satellites into orbit is now, the price would be orders of magnitude lower.
But yeah the investment to get to that point would be immense and take decades.
Why. Why do we need to go to the moon. To build a Subway Sandwich shop?
It takes a lot less to launch a rocket from the lunar surface to anywhere in the solar system than from earth. If we ever get manufacturing working on or around the moon then it opens up a lot of possibilities for larger payloads. This means we can send more further and it makes the whole process cheaper.
Because it’s there.
So that people like you can complain about it on the internet.