One reason to to be concerned about the 2024 Moon plan: In Apollo's final run at the Moon there were four crew missions in seven months (Apollo 8, 9, 10, 11) to prove out systems. The Artemis plan, as currently conceived, has two in three years.
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As it is currently constituted, Artemis will skip Apollo 9 and 10. Perhaps that is fine. But the mission is also quite a bit more complicated, requiring automated assembly of the Lunar Gateway, and more than a dozen crew dockings, undockings, and staging events.
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I agree with your conclusion, but to pedantically pick a nit: we've got a lot more experience with automated assembly in 2019 than we did in 1968
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