Why have we not been back to the moon?

Question

Hey, folks, it is a completely fallacious argument to say that because we have not been back to the moon, we could not have gone back in the 1960's.

I'll remind you that supersonic airliner Concorde is scrapped. There are no other supersonic airliners on the drawing board. Concorde was 1960s technology.

We haven't got a supersonic airliner today, so Concorde must have been a fake.

Answer 1

1) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary object, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't. Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.

2) In 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.

If six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not one, but six!

3) Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landing well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.

Answer 2

Couldn't find a parking space. I'm reading a story about a meteor that hits the earth. We need to put rocket engines on the moon and use it to deflect meteors that come our way. So far we have yet to find a moon or planet that would support human life, that is what I am waiting for. Also apparently they got side-tracked by the space shuttle program. A trip to Mars is supposed to be in the works but I don't think they have a ship that can do that yet. I did hear they were experimenting to see if they can get a crew that can be confined together for a year without killing each other.

Answer 3

Its kind of ominous, like the human race reached its peak in the early 1970's and has been treading water ever since, and now is starting to slip back. Only the computer revolution and biotech stand as big technological advances since then. The moon race was just that, a race, and once the USSR lost, interest declined. I used to take it for granted that the US should be the country to lead the human race into space, but no more...it is too aggressive, too anti science, too hung up on religious superstition. Fortunately with Bush's trillion dollar debt to Communist China, America has committed economic suicide and soon will no longer be capable of influencing the future of the human race, let alone leading it into space.

Answer 4

Why go back. there is no reason to go back. Actually in light of recent discoveries into the universe, many scientists want more US funding in research like dark matter and dark energy. Bush is receiving a lot of criticism for not funding this, yet he has said he wants man to go back to the moon.

Answer 5

Why do we need to go back? 13 men have been there...brought back over 800 pounds of rocks and dirt, what else do we need? I did find it odd that evey Apollo missions landed within a few hundred miles of each other when there is so much more ground to cover.

Answer 6

Because of the same reason we are not going to Mars or any other place for that matter.

1- NO MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2- NO ECONOMIC GAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Better spend our resources looking for cheap methods to generate energy, fix Social Security, and turn the economy around.

Anything other you hear in the media is nothing but political propaganda trying to smoke screen the multi-trillion dollars deficit this administration is going to leave behind for the democrats to fix.

Answer 7

I think you are wrong. It can be reduced to economics. Right now the USA is economically down the tubes so don't expect much coming from here soon. There are a MILLION more important things to do.

Answer 8

You are right to imply that technology to go the to Moon cheaply has not been developed. Unlike electronics, rockets today are just as expensive and just as clunky as they were in 1969.

Answer 9

Great question. Now thatks to the president we are on our way back.

SST airliners are on the spot. They have been cited as a reason for the diminishing of the ozone layer.

Answer 10

We had 9 missions to the moon and we did not have a need to go back.

Now we have a need to go back; to secure a remote launching point for possible manned missions to Mars.

Plain and simple... no conspiracy.