Did we really land on the moon and if so why haven't we been back again?

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 objective, 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 in Washington, D.C. 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 just one moon landing, but six of them!

3) Even if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings 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.


P.S. You know I used to travel to Crested Butte, CO to go skiing. I went annually. Now that I don't go there any more, does that mean that all my other trips were fake? Wow. Maybe I just pretended to ski! Aaah!

Answer 2

We originally went to the Moon to beat the Soviets and to prove it could be done. Once we achieved that, we started doing a little science, bringing back Moon rocks, etc. We stopped going after only 3 years in part because we proved it could be done ("been there, done that") and in part because the American public lost interest. There were probably other reasons, too, particularly political reasons.

Sending people to the Moon is expensive, and a bit risky (as are all space missions). We've sent many unmanned space craft to the Moon in the last 30 years in order to learn more about it. Some would argue that with today's robot technology, there's no reason to send humans to the Moon anymore, or into space at all, for that matter. Personally I think we do need to study human space flight, since I think it is inevitable that we will colonize other worlds eventually. But we need to do it right, and the right reasons are not political reasons! But that's just my opinion.

Answer 3

America did not land on the Moon. We payed billions of dollars for the 360 foot Saturn 5 rocket so we could look at it and say wow that is a big rocket. We kept approx. 400,000 technicians, scientists and construction contractors quiet, with zero leaks to the public. The rocks that we thought that came from moon and have proved to be from the moon are really from the Pacific Ocean.

Other Conspiracies to think about:

1. The Jews did not suffer in Germany because there was no Holocaust. Actually it was the Jews that was torturing the poor blond haired deprived Germans. Those tattoos on the Jews arms and hands that are still alive today (by the grace of God) are really there because they want to be hip.

2. We knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor before they did. I mean come-on President Roosevelt liked the thought of our boys baking inside the Battle Ship Arizona before they died. The President was looking for a better way to get a good nights sleep.

3. The Mafia whacked JFK, via the Russian connection, via the Cuban connection. The man on the grassy knoll was really a CIA agent employed by Castro under orders from Giancana and Marcello with direct communications with Kruschev...or something like that.

4. Aliens landed in Roswell and we transported them to Area 51 to back engineer their technology, where do you think the stealth air craft came from? Again, we kept it secret by brain washing the thousands of workers who were in on the scam.

5. The Moon we see every night is really not there along with the planets and stars as well the Planet Killing Asteroids. Those were put there by the evil United States to toy with our minds.

6. Fossils of early homosapiens, homoerectus and earlier models were put their by evil paleontologists, athropoligists, and assorted rock hounds looking to enhance their careers, Creation is the real objective reality.

7. America is a conspiracy and is a fake country and none of us Americans really live here.

8. I was never born so this response to your question is a fake.

Answer 4

First moon landing was done in 1969.
It is real. It displayed the technological might of USA.
Since then US has ben very busy spreading the message of democracy all over the world (except of course Pakistan.)
Hence the delay!

Answer 5

Yes, we really did land on the moon. Six times.

So we have been back five times.

The moon project was not a profit making enterprise... no gold, no chicks, no booze, no air, too much radiation, why would anyone want to go back?

Answer 6

OMG. Another one. I really can't believe this. Make yourself a tin foil hat so that the aliens can't read your mind.

Answer 7

Yes we did once anyway but more than once I don't know!!!!!!!!!!