Not to be a total downer about this, but the political will for both the Manhattan Project and Apollo have to do with their role in either warfare or assisting warfare (rockets = ICBMs). Solving big problems takes big money, and war is big money.https://twitter.com/foodandwater/status/1105264679973277696 …
and at least one of those was done entirely without any oversight...http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2012/04/02/do-we-want-another-manhattan-project/ …
