2007-01-05 14:09:29 · 8 answers · asked by juliangrebe 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
We will, but right now, this is considered very costly.
We haven't got the hardware ready -- the last rocket capable of putting a few tons with only 2 people, on the moon, and for missions that lasted at most a couple of days, was built in the early 1970's; since then the assembly line for the mighty Saturn 5 rocket was stopped and dismantled, as most orbital development monies were put into the space shuttle.
So, before we can establish a moon base, we have to design, develop, test, and produce new rockets capable of doing it.
Those are on the drawing board, and let's hope those "lets make it cheaper at all cost" politicians do not put their big nose in there; that is what they did with the shuttle, and making it "cheap" made it much less capable that it could have been, and more expensive in the end.
2007-01-05 14:21:56 · answer #1 · answered by Vincent G 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We are going to. Bush has ask Nasa to negotiate with several countries to help build it. The main problem had been solved and water has been found on the moons pole. Obviously US will be involved. Europe, Russia, japan, and the Rumour is that China is going to be asked to take part in this. China for some reason is the only nation with a significant space program that is not taking part of the space station.
2007-01-05 14:19:13 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Have you seen the 70's show, Space 1999? You can see on the pilot episode what will happen to the moon if we build a base on it! It gets blasted out of earth's orbit with all the nuclear waste we store there when it ignites. You can find out about that show on the web, dvd's available on e bay.
2007-01-06 02:32:13 · answer #3 · answered by critter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the moon is actually a LONG way away. many more times as far out as the space shuttle or even satelites travel. right now there is no need. to get there. keep in mind that the saturn rocket that took us to the moon took 3 days to even get there. wheras the shuttle stops using its engines in about under 30 min. also when you see pictures out the window of the earth from the shuttle it is just a little piece of the earth. the pics from the moon have the earth looking tiny. distance is the trouble right now.
2007-01-05 14:17:43 · answer #4 · answered by wilrycar 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It costs a lot of money to get stuff there and you need a lot of stuff to live in a vacuum in a place that goes from way, way below zero to well above boiling every two weeks. There has to be some purpose, like mining to build space ships. Shipping stuff from earth to build something there is a bit pointless because it could be built in space without the cost of taking off from the moon.
2007-01-05 14:16:02 · answer #5 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not cost effective at this point, with regards to "what" we would actually use it/them for, but, I also believe, we will be building on the moon in the next decade or so, if not only for strategic "defense" reasons ("Star Wars Initiative").
2007-01-05 14:13:09 · answer #6 · answered by Life after 45 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is alredy a base on moon it is just not ours.
Just take a look at this
http://www.dumbr.com/out.php?id=225
There you got your answer.
2007-01-06 09:23:40 · answer #7 · answered by borostmcbarna 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The planning for that has started.
2007-01-05 14:41:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋