It is totally untrue that we have not been back due to there being no need. The scientists and specifically geologists waiting for more information from the moon were devastated at the Apollos 18 to 20 being cancelled.
It was money and the times (Vietnam war). The moon shots were incredibly expensive. Just to develop the lander cost about 2 billion dollars back then.
When the Saturn V rocket was mothballed, they have not got a rocket that will take humans beyond earth oribit. To do that, they would have to rebuild the Saturn V or design a new rocket.
Do not believe the people that say there is no need, they do not know what they are talking about and are not much better than those idiots who think it was faked.
We only got a tiny fraction of lunar information from the six Apollo moon landings.
2006-12-27 09:27:32 · 4 answers · asked by nick s 6 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
There isn't much in the way of nightlife.
2006-12-27 09:45:58 · answer #1 · answered by Robert, amazingly enough. 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Actually NASA is planing to build a habitat on the moon surface right by the south polo do to the fact that sun hits that spot almost 23 hours out of the day, this in turn is do to the need for solar power. They plain not only to build the habitat but do extensive research on the moon, they believe that it would make a great place to lunch from to get to mars, do to the lack of gravity and all. You can read up more on this at NASA web sit.
2006-12-27 18:28:22 · answer #2 · answered by matt v 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Theres no point going back to the moon because unmanned space probes can accomplish so much more, not to mention they are much safer. What the moon is composed of is really of no importance to us. Why confine ourselves to the moon when new planets such as Pluto or Charon are still so unknown?
2006-12-27 18:07:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
there are more important things to spend money on
2006-12-27 17:35:43 · answer #4 · answered by Jill&Justin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋