Why should we go back to the moon?

Question

It would be a total waste of time and money!

Answer 1

Apollo 18, 19 and 20 were cancelled. Plans were for those missions to include a little "moon flyer", an improvement on the rover that could get astronauts to more remote places where the lander could not land.

Also, they were going to send an unmanned lander with supplies so that the following manned lander could stay longer.

This new technology would have got them to places like crater Aristarchus where over many years, strange lights have been reported. Also, they needed to get into one of the so-called rills - huge canyon like depressions that are still completely unexplained.

Another was planned to go to the other side of the moon. Radio contact would be maintained with Mission control via lunar satellites that they would set up in advance.

The great mystery of the "far side" is that it is almost completely void of the dark, flat, so-called Mares that we see on the Earth-side, and easily visible with the naked eye.

There are so many things they never got to find out - the Apollos that went, really never had a chance to see the "risky" places - that needed the extra technology that was never used.

The later Apollos were cancelled due to lack of tax-payer interest. In my mind all those people must have been the Moms and Dads who then spawned all the morons who keep spouting that men never went to the moon.

Answer 2

I 4 1 am certainly not 4 going back 2 the moon. the main reason being that I've never been. I wouldn't want to anyway, I mean, What's the point. What more could we possibly learn from sending people there? I could tell you alot about the moon from just sitting here on my couch. Yep, I agree with you on this; it would be a waste of time and money.

Answer 3

For starters, without the moon there would be no Earth, the moon provides stability for Earth to even exist. Plus the whole theory of planetrian creation is debated and it's said the, "moons" harbor some of the most exotic realestate in the galaxies, due the possiblity they are made of the same material as the very planet they orbit, in most cases I believe, and they do have likely theories which have been simulated on computers for a better understanding, and what there finding is we need to know more about the formation of planets. So in short, the moon has humanities footprints, and will be the stepping stool for further exploration of our galaxy and the universe for that matter.

Answer 4

It is important to get back to the moon for many reasons...
1. It is the first step to exploring deeper space - like mars and the asteroid belt.
2. There are TONS of valuable metals on the moon like titanium.
3. In order to spur technological advances.
4. Launching a mission to further in the solar system from the surface of the moon takes FAR less energy (fuel) than launching such a mission from the surface of the earth.
5. To inspire younger people and get them interested in sciences.
6. To learn about the origins of our planet and solar system.

That's all I can come up with off the top of my head, but I believe going to the moon is very worthwhile.

Answer 5

A lab on the moon would be another small step past the space lab. If we could make a lab on the moon self sufficient using the moon's resources, our ability to go deeper into space would be greatly enhanced. Exploring space requires more resources than any one country has. It is a uniting effort. Imagine a thousand people from the U.S., Russia, China, Europe, Asia, Africa, etc. working together on the moon causing 100s of thousands of people on the planet to work together to support them and the good will it would promote.

Answer 6

I agree, a complete waste of time and money. It is only because George W wants to be seen as a "great" president that we are doing this. We will never colonise any stars, never mind the moon. There is no water there so that is that. Why should we go into space to rape another planetary body of its resources when we are screwing this planet around so badly? The nearest star is 3.7 light years away and will take us about 500 odd years to get there with present technology. Can you imagine any viable human population living in a tin tube for 500 years? We should be putting our own house in order, not all this fantasy crud about "evolution" "exploration" and "human spirit"

Answer 7

That's the problem with having governments in charge of space exploration. You think it's a waste, but if they do it you'll be taxed for it. Others think it's a good idea and would pay big bucks to go or even to have an astronaut do a commercial for their product on the Moon, etc.

Personally, I think there's alot of good science that could be done on the Moon, but it'd be alot cheaper to send remote control machines up instead of people (who need food and water and a return ticket) for 90% of the study.

Answer 8

Waste of money you say. A lot of the technology that we take for granted is the product of space research so don't think of it as wasteful but an investment that will pay dividends.

Answer 9

I think one of the astronauts left their wallet up there.

Seriously, the number and importance to mankind of innovations developed as a result of the space program are too many to list. By not going back to the moon and beyond, we deny ourselves the very tools we will need to survive as a race.

Answer 10

To satisfy human being's insatiable need to mess things up.

We've messed up everything on Earth, so it's got to be time to move on to other moons and planets soon.