Why have there not be any moon landings in 36 years?

Question

Do they just not have a reason to go there anymore or is it too costly and dangerous or what?

Answer 1

Letting the shuttle fly was expensive enough. You might not believe it, but one shuttle mission to the ISS costs nearly as much as one lunar landing (including R&D costs, which had been very high for Apollo, but not much lower for the Shuttle).

Answer 2

Yeah... why pay billions to research abroad when people here die of starvation everyday? These goals should be an internationally combined effort until we end poverty and homelessness in our own nation.

Answer 3

- Budget cuts / accountability requirements

- Resources directed towards International Space Station

- Shuttle disasters

- Shuttle programme nearing end of life-cycle

- 'Been there, done that!'

Answer 4

Because they're incapable of doing it - and the first ones never happened either.

It's scientifically impossible to "put a man on the moon" wearing just a spacesuit - as those astronauts apparently did.

The Moon is outside of the Earth's Van Allen belt and magnetic field, and it doesn't have an atmosphere containing ozone or a Van Allen belt of it's own.

Thus, the moon is bathed is deadly radiation from the Sun all the time. Putting a person on the moon would fry them - unless they have a very thick spacesuit made out of lead - which those apparent astronauts didn't have.

You could probably go on the moon - but you'd be stuck in a big, thick-walled lead cube with no windows - so it wouldn't be all that exciting - apart from the lower gravity maybe. Very claustrophobic in any case!

Answer 5

You hit all the reasons in that one line.

Answer 6

It is too costly and dangerous to send a maned craft back to the moon but the main reason is that we don't have any need or desire to go back there at the moment. The main focus has been on Mars for a very long time now.

Answer 7

NASA is now considering going back to the moon.

Their mission is to set up a base on the moon.

NASA stated that they will go to the moon by 2020.

and to answer your question...

not only is it to costly and dangerous, people weren't interested.

NASA always does something to amaze me...

so i guess we'll just have to wait and see if they really do go to the moon by 2020...

NASA also has plans to send humans to Mars by 2040

Answer 8

You are exactly right. Costs too much, too dangerous, and given the fact that we’ve landed there before, explored it, found no life, and our economy is in the slums, it is money better spent elsewhere in space exploration.