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Nothing like the Apollo missions has been seen since, and some believe nothing ever will be.
Leading spacecraft expert Professor Andre Balogh, from Imperial College London, argues that the level of commitment and risk required to get astronauts to the Moon and back in 1969 would simply not be possible today.
He told the Press Association: "It was carried out in a technically brilliant way with risks taken … that would be inconceivable in the risk-averse world of today.
"The Apollo programme is arguably the greatest technical achievement of mankind to date. And it was carried out successfully, against the backdrop of a difficult political situation in the USA, caused in large part by the worsening of the human and financial cost of the Vietnam war.
