Question: why has the US not attempted to land on Venus?
I'm glad the USA didn't. That left them more $$$ to spend on Mars and other projects.
For the most part the "space race" was over when the USA landed on the moon. So wouldn't it make more economic sense if the various space-faring nations did different things? E.g. it was the ESA that sent Rosetta to Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
Money itself isn't the issue; copying from another website, NASA's budget for 2020 is $22 billion which represents 0.48% of all U.S. government spending (compare that to $705 billion for military spending combined).
I'm glad the USA didn't. That left them more $$$ to spend on Mars and other projects.
For the most part the "space race" was over when the USA landed on the moon. So wouldn't it make more economic sense if the various space-faring nations did different things? E.g. it was the ESA that sent Rosetta to Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko.