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You know my personal reasoning, why things didn't went "2001 - A Space Odyssey" after Apollo.
Aldrin has my sympathy, but he (like many others) sadly don't get that this "gap" since Apollo, never has been an "anomaly", as they believed.
It's been almost 50 years now.
To quote from Stephen Baxter's "Moonseed".
>"In a way Apollo fooled us. Apollo wasn’t a lunar exploration system. All Apollo could do was deliver two guys to a place on the near side of the Moon, not too far from the equator, for three days, at a certain time in the lunar morning. And that was it, and even for that you had to fire off a Saturn V every time. There was no real expansion capability, no logical follow-on.”
And please don't come with "But.. NERVA". NERVA never flew. The successful ground tests didn't proof, that this tech would also work as believed in space.
Heck, just watch this new video put out by Thunderf00t, where he also talks about Apollo and that actually EVERY Apollo mission had a defect, that could have lead to a potential lethal incident. And it almost happend with Apollo 13. And according a book, i have once read, lots of NASA managers were actually secretly glad that the program was ended, before a real lethal incent would have happend. They knew that they had reasoned the technical limits of their time.