were there any spaceflights after 1972? if there weren't why not?

Question

what i mean is that after 1972 and before 1989

Answer 1

There were quite a few manned spaceflights between 1972 and 1989. Here are some of the highlights:

Launched in 1973, Skylab was occupied by three crews from May 1973 to February 1974. In 1975, the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project flew the first international cooperative spaceflight. The space shuttle, first flown in 1981, has since averaged about 6 flights a year, save for the two years immediately following the Challenger and Columbia accidents.

The Soviet Union launched their first space station, Salyut 1, in 1971, and launched 7 more over the next 15 years. Two of these were abject failures, but the remaining 6, along with the 15-year habitation of Mir, gave Russia crucial expertise in long-duration spaceflight.

Answer 2

First let me thank everyone who answered. It's good to know so many people are still interested in the space program and it's history.
Andrew Chaikin's A MAN ON THE MOON is the best book on the subject in my opinion and I've read them all.

Since the person who asked this question mentions 1972 and "spaceflights" I suspect he is asking about flights to the moon.
Sadly the answer as we know is no there were no more after 1972. These flights ended mostly because they were expensive, extremely dangerous, and done on the extreme cutting edge of the technology of the time. A follow up moon base was considered to be outside of 1906s technology.

The Space Shuttle was developed at great costs and military requirements ended up causing the vehicle to be far larger than what NASA wanted originally. With size and reusability came high maintainance costs. A Space Shuttle launch turned out to cost as much as a Moon mission and it's quick turn around time of weeks turned out to be months.

Werner Von Braun the farther of the Saturn V saw a space station as the first step to going to the moon. We've been doing it all backwards.

Answer 3

1972 was the last time men went to the Moon. There have been lots of spaceflights since then. All manned missions since then have only been in low-earth orbit. The first space shuttle flight was in 1981, but there were other manned space craft before then.

Here's a list of all manned space flights, not just NASA's, either:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_human_spaceflights

Answer 4

Yes. The Skylab program, the first "space station," ran from May 1973 to Feb. 1974. There were also lots of unmanned spaceflights, like the Viking Mars landers (which landed on Mars in 1976), Voyagers I and II, etc.

Answer 5

yes tere wer many. recently first female tourist came back.

Answer 6

NO, it has all been just computer animation (and some of it pretty cheesy, too.....)