Pls be honest & explain why there has been no moon-landing since 1969 1st attempt? Was then tech too behind?

Question

Technology was supposed to be too behind to make moon-landing possible in those times!!! Am I correct?

Answer 1

1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.

Apollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean
Apollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>
Apollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell
Apollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin
Apollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke
Apollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt


2) Why haven't we been back?

a) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.

b) 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.

c) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?


3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts? Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?

The existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos. Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA.

The radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong. You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness. And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection. "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."

"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation." When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.


4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?

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!


5) What about the USSR?

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.


6) Why does the flag shake? Where are the stars?

Take a look at the first two websites listed below. They deal well with all of the technical questions.


7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?

Answer 2

The technology to get to the moon was a focal point in the Space Race; within 9 years of Sputnik, man-made objects had already flown past the moon, taken pictures of its unseen side, impacted on the surface, and even soft-landed and returned images from the surface. This was true for both contestants in the race, so getting to the Moon would seem to have been one of the less complicated parts of the assignment.

Getting a manned spacecraft to travel the same distance - and return - seemed a more daunting task. Both sides had major accidents with the manned spacecraft designed to take them on lunar missions. The near-failure of the Apollo 13 life support system only shows what an immense gamble the Apollo 8 lunar orbital mission was taking.

Science packages deployed by the astronauts on the lunar surface were more complex than those that could be set up by the robotic probes of the day, so the laser reflectors, and the trails of the roving vehicles are probably the best overall evidence that someone actually visited the surface of the Moon.

Orbital probes from other countries than the original space race contestants will soon be photographing the lunar surface, with resolutions good enough to see these artifacts directly. THAT should end, once and for all, the myth that the moon landings were a hoax.

That bunk belongs on the shelf right next to the Face on Mars, any way....

Answer 3

It is absolutely unbelievable that one of the greatest scientific accomplishments and achievements in the history of man (and women) is no longer taught at even the high school level.

The 1st moon landing was in July 1969 and the final landing of men of the moon was on December 11, 1972. It was Apollo 17 and the last man to walk on the moon was Gene Cernan. The US government stopped sending men to the moon not because of a lack of technology but because it was too expensive and people no longer found space travel and moon landing exciting. In fact, when Apollo17 landed on the moon the TV networks interrupted some dumba$$ "day time dramas"...soap operas...to show the landing and the network received thousands of complaints that their "soaps" were interrupted by men landing on the moon.

Unbelievable...and it just goes to show ignorant, dim-witted and self absorbed the average American was...and no doubt still remains.

Answer 4

We took a huge risk in making a moon landing to beat the USSR to the moon. It was all about political dominance. For better safety we should have waited a good 10 years before attempting the landing. The reason there has been no lunar landing since is because we have put all of our resources into the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle to prepare for long distant space flights. NASA has to fight for the money they are allocated and they must make it look like they are accomplishing something.

Answer 5

Cost.

A total of two million people were involved in working on projects associated with the moon landings. There were no financial gains from getting there and no exploitable resources. The whole exercise was driven by political ambitions and a fear of the other side getting a technical edge - these factors ceased to apply and there was then no reason to go back.

And no, the technology to get to the moon is not hard. It does not even require a knowledge of quantum mechanics - Newtons 300 year old theories will do just fine. It is just terribly expensive.

Answer 6

The truth is that the moon landings were, in scientific value, little more than a huge propaganda and flag waving exercise for the US who were, at the time, involved in the cold war with the communist states of the world. Of course we gained valuable information about lunar geology but little else that could not be gained from observation and unmanned probes. The landings used vastly expensive non-reusable rockets as a delivery system which diverted finance away from more important space research,
Since that time work done in space has hugely increased our understanding of our universe with priceless work being done by the Hubble Space Telescope, I.R telescopes, solar observation satellites, robot probes to Mars and other planets, the space shuttle development and the manned space station. The list goes on and on. I do not wish in any way to denigrate the fantastic achievement of the moon landings and the bravery of the astronauts who made them but their value and purpose was more political than scientific.

Answer 7

Was there a landing on moon ever is doubtful even today.
Technology is far more superior than was in 1969 but the cost of landing on moon is too high and what is the benefit that is going to bring to mankind is debatable

Answer 8

there is not any cutting-edge economic or political incentive. the only genuine incentive interior the '60s replaced into to maintain a technological side in area over the U.S.. there replaced right into a real concern that if the U.S. "owned" area, the U. S. could be crippled in a conflict. it relatively is not that we actually lack the understand-a thank you to bypass back to the moon, it relatively is basically that we at the instant are not "tooled up" for it. The machines we geared up to construct the Apollo application are not to any extent further in provider. we would ought to re-build or reflect their function, which shall we do, yet no longer on the drop-of-a-hat. it would take a while. yet another situation is the shortcoming of sensible adventure. it relatively is one situation to reproduce something from blueprints, yet now and back there is an unwritten paintings that basically gets exceeded down from one set of professionals to the subsequent. greater than a number of the engineers immediately have been infants on the time of the final moon stroll, and have not have been given any sensible adventure with the missions.

Answer 9

6 moon landing total 12 men on moon.

first july 69.

Answer 10

No - there wre several more moon landings after the first one, all by American astronauts.