If the moon landings were real, then why didnt we ever go back to the moon?

Question

This is a continuation of my previous question. If our technology has advanced since the time the moon landings supposedly happened, then whats stopping us from returning to the moon, if we ever went which I strongly doubt? Please dont give me the "We are at war" excuse because even before sept 11 (another nasty conspiracy kept secret), we had the more advanced technology to return to the moon.

Answer 1

If our technology has advanced so much why did my parents pay $3,000 for a 1964 Chevy that got about 25 MPG and now we have to pay $30,000 for a 2008 Chevy that gets 25 MPG?

Because technology has NOT advanced, that is why. You are being fooled by electronics technology that HAS advanced greatly. But all kinds of transportation technology has stagnated, including cars, planes and rockets. It would be just as expensive and dangerous today as it was in 1972 when the last Moon landing happened.

Answer 2

NASA'S  current plan is to return to the moon about 2020.

Answer 3

After 6 manned lunar missions the excitement and public support wore off.  If there is no political need, there is no budget for it.

NASA was supported completely by congressional budgets, and once it had accomplished JFK's vision (and then some), it wasn't "politically viable" and was considered a drain on the nation's budget.  There were several times in the 1970's and into the 1980's where NASA was in danger of losing all its funding.

Answer 4

Why would we go back? Another round of golf? For one its all about the money. But we got the rocks, we've sent probes, we have a ton of data about the moon. Its geological about as active as a golf ball, it has no atmosphere, no water, no real significances except as a place of human accomplishment and the origins of our Earth.

My point is simply that as robotics have advanced, its become more cost effective to send robots to other planets and moons than people. That and the moon really is pretty boring in comparison to Mars or the moons of the gas giants, places that seem active and may even have liquid water. Liquid water means possibility of life. Unless we discover something about the moon that warrants a manned mission, we're probably not going back.

And actually we WILL be going back, in a bit less than a decade to start building a lunar base as well as use the moon for an observatory and a possible staging area for manned deep space travel.

PS I believe that with modern computer technology that if our government wanted to stage a landing they could do it far more easily than back in 1969. Yes new information systems means there could be leaks. But think about what the government is doing that we don't know about as it is. They could probably hoax a moon landing now at a price cheaper than actually sending someone to the moon. That and they could add cool razzle dazzle special affects and make a hude fiasco out of it.

What would be the point though?

Answer 5

There is no motivation,who cares about a hunk of rock anyway?

Answer 6

We ran out of money and we were no longer competing with the Soviet Union. Now, all the money is being spent on the wars in the middle East, so we can't really go back.

Answer 7

You're a terribly dishonest person.  You ask questions, the answers to which you have no intention of accepting, because you have already chosen to make up your mind and place your lot in with a paranoid conspiracy theory so obviously flawed that grade-school children can debunk it.

You're like a Creationist.

Answer 8

It cost like 500 million - 1 billion each trip. And we are planning on returning approximately 2017.

Answer 9

Budget Budget Budget.  

Have you ever tried getting money out of congress, especially for something that there's no longer much political interest in?

Answer 10

ok... we have gone to the moon since then but umm.... seriously dude whats the governments modivation in funding a billion+ dollar trip to the moon when there really is nothing worth our while there. also, do you think we can just make trillion dollar bills and then boom go to the moon. if you think we have never gone to  the moon you obviously have a very arrogant, stuck up, and raw character.

Answer 11

Because the cost to go to the moon is exceedingly expensive.  In the 1960's , there was a motive: America needed to get to the moon before the Soviets.  This was important to the security of the nation for a number of reasons.  Since the last Apollo mission, and until just recently, there was not enough of a compelling reason to spend the money to go.

Within the last few years, the Bush administration charged NASA with returning to the moon.  NASA has been working on this project for a few years now; you can read about it here: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explor...