Will the US ever go back to the moon?

Question

People debate that the space program has lost interest since accidents like the columbia. Would this benefit the space program? What do you think?

Answer 1

NASA"S main goal is to send man to Mars in about thirty years.

Answer 2

Which is more probable?

We went to the moon with less computer power than a modern digital watch, and we're going again. Then to Mars and off to Zeta Reticuli.

or

Your government has sold you out and wants to force this on you:

http://www.verichipcorp.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0gXGTcd6...

Check this out:

Lawn furniture or super groovy interplanetary spaceship of the naive 60's?

http://moonmovie.com/images/AS11-40-5922...

(make sure to enlarge in order to really get a good look at American engineering at its finest)

Answer 3

the U.S will def. go bak  to the moon cuz they are selling tickets for familys to go there. laydur. i mean years and years laydur. they will try and let people live up there if tehy can

Answer 4

The rockets and orbiter being designed to replace the shuttle which will be retired in 2010 are being designed around going back to the Moon. The Orion reentry vehicle looks a lot like the Apollo reentry module.

Currently NASA hopes to get back to the Moon a little after 2020... just quick enough to beat the deadline the Chinese have set for going to the Moon. This will only happen however if Congress give up the necessary funding. It probably won't escalate to the proportions that the Apollo budget did unless they really do build a permanent installation on the Moon like is also planned but NASA still need a big budget boost to make all their plans work.

Answer 5

We will go back.

Answer 6

NASA has embarked on a mission to send astronauts to Mars. Part of that plan is to send some to the moon first to test new gear.

What's up with the "never been there yet" theorists? There is absolutely no reason to lie about such an endeavor. I guess all those folks who watched the missions take off from Florida were paid actors too...

Answer 7

the soundstage is still in burbank, we can go back anytime we like.

Answer 8

they said they were talking putting civilation on the moon

this was two years ago so who knows

Answer 9

How cute... you really believe we went...

Answer 10

N.A.S.A. will be returning to the moon to set up a moon base from 2019 to 2024.

Answer 11

Only if someone discovers oil on it and we decide it should belong to us.

Answer 12

The moon landings were faked to help set up for Project Bluebeam:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJirnJSwq...

Answer 13

Have we been there?

Answer 14

a return to teh moon is current u.s. government and nasa policy, and has been extensively publicised.

did you just arrive on this planet?

Answer 15

never went in the first place it was all staged

Answer 16

Those are NASA's current plans.  But they will likely never be realized should Obama get into office.  He has clearly stated his disdain for manned spaceflight in any form.  There seems little chance of the Constellation program surviving an Obama administration.

Answer 17

Yes, we will go back to the Moon. It's the stated goal of NASA to return by 2020. I am sure we will do it. The question is why, and what will be do once we get there?. In the 1960's why part was easy, to beat the Soviets. Once we got there, the now what?  became the unanswered question.

The Constellation program is being billed as Apollo in steroids. We are going to build big, heavy, expensive, unreliable, chemical rockets to go collect rocks again. Big deal. What we need to be working on is a cheap, efficient means of getting into space.

Currently it cost about $10,000/pound we place in orbit. Most of the of the rockets we use today falls into the oceans or burn up in the atmosphere. This is a colossal waste. This must be changed if we truly want to conquer space.

We need some serious out of the box thinking to solve this problem. Technologies such as a space elevator can help is over come this and could be built within the next 10 to 15 years within the current NASA budget. Although I would prefer private investment.

Unless you want to be sitting around in 2020 and saying to yourself, 'Wow, we spent all this money and all we got were some more Moon rocks, now what?' I would suggest you get involved in this.

Answer 18

We never went sweetheart.

Answer 19

LoL

Answer 20

I hope so.

Apollo was cancelled after only 4 years and 6 landings because most people got bored with it and annoyed by the expense. That feeling has not gone away. But a minority of the population, including me, thinks it was a good idea. Some of those people are rich enough to start their own space program. Richard Branson has started Virgin Galactic, which has hired Burt Rutan to build suborbital space craft to take paying passengers into space for 5 minutes. Elon Musk has started Space Exploration Technologies to build a new generation of cheaper rockets. He already has contracts with NASA and others. Robert Bigelow is building a private space station. He has two subs-scale test modules in orbit now. Google has offered a cash prize for any private person or group who can put a robotic rover on the Moon, with extra cash awarded for extras like taking close-up pictures of the old Apollo hardware. So there is a lot of interesting new activity. Maybe the next person on the Moon will NOT be a government astronaut!

Answer 21

its kinda doubtful.

when Dubya announced his "We are going to the Moon, again, whee!" project in January of 2004, it was pretty obviously an attempt to woo the votes of America's intelligentsia, who voted for Gore in '00.  A clever plan... suspiciously seductive... (probably suggested by Cheney), not only due to the immediate goal (no, not going to the Moon, silly) of getting a few smarties distracted by bright and shiny objects (Ooooh, an Orion launch vehicle!) but it also meant that such a long-term project wouldn't have to even be IN THE BUDGET for years!  Woot!  Free Votes!

It would have been simpler to just promise a visit by a Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader to every man that works at NASA.  After all, what trumps 'bright and shiny'?

Twins!