Why can't we land on the moon?

Question

Technology today should be much better than the primitive 1960's so why can't we repeat the feat?.

Answer 1

MONEY many many billions of dollars.

Answer 2

Since the early 1970's we have not put money and energy into developing heavy launch vehicles. Instead we have decided to build space stations and investigating low earth orbit. The space shuttle does not go very far into space; certainly not nearly as far as the moon. So the simple answer is that we have not devoted ourselves to the task of going back to the moon. If we want to return, we would have to put money into building larger launch vehicles again. But it is a very expensive and dangerous, just like it was in the 1960's and 1970's.

Answer 3

The minimal scientific advancement that would be achieved is simply not worth the enormous expense of a manned moon landing.

For now, this is true for landings on other planets as well. We can accomplish a great deal of science and learn a lot by putting an unmanned lander on Mars, for example, and it's a heck of lot cheaper than putting a live human being there and bringing him back.

Answer 4

Yes we could, but new vehicles have to be created, as those of the 60's are not available any more.
It is all a question of money and political will. There is no cold war anymore, and maybe the Chinese will get there before we return to the Moon. They are developing their technology fast and they already manifested interest for such mission.

Answer 5

They scrapped the old hardware and it would take time and money to build new hardware. OK, they didn't exactly scrap it, but they stopped building it, and since each part of the Apollo was left on the Moon or in space, except for the command module, there is no existing hardware capable of going to the Moon today. But if we wanted to spend the money, we could build new hardware and go again. NASA is working on that, but slowly because they do not have enough money to do it quickly. And probably the program will get cut before they complete it. China or someone else will go there next.

Answer 6

We may have faster computers, and more expensive TV sets, but the cost to launch a Megaton shuttle into space still relies upon a lot of overhead cost. Fuel, materials, safety checks, engineering, research, testing. These things only get more expensive over the years. Plus, even though it would cost marginally less today to do this, NASA has no where near the funding it had in the 60's.

Answer 7

Who says that we can't?

It is not a matter of can or cannot.

It is a simple matter of cost versus benefit.
It will cost billions of dollars to go back to the Moon.
And, for that return visit we will gain what???

Wouldn't you like to find a cure for Cancer, Diabetes, Altzimers,
and Arthritis first?
How about feeding all the people on earth for a change?
Shouldn't we do those things first?

Answer 8

We can but we have to build all new hardware. The shuttle can't make the trip so we need a new lunar module, etc. And it's going to cost a lot of money!

Answer 9

It is not that we can't. It is that we have no need to land on the moon at this point in time. NASA is spending it's time exploring other regions/planets of the solar system and beyond.

Answer 10

Land to the moon today??To do what yp there??revision???
Or a replay of 1969 and 1970s

Answer 11

Money! It takes a lot of money and America are spending it on two wars instead.