Man ever landed in moon? If yes then why nasa is not trying to send a man again to moon?

Question

With exponential growth in field of science and technology (space science) Is nasa feeling that they are not capable of repeating a feet which was achieved in 1969 ( a relative pre technological era comparing now)?

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? Who took the video of Neil Armstrong?

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

1) Yes, we really did land on the moon. All of the conspiracy theories that the landing was faked are promoted by people who don't really know their science. They see a bit of information that doesn't make sense to them personally and do not have the technical background and depth to fully explain what they see. So they assume that the whole thing was faked.

2) NASA is right now planning to return to the moon. Contracts have been awarded to companies to design the crew vehicle, launch vehicle, etc. Google NASA for the whole story.

3) Why we have not returned to the moon sooner?? - $$$$$$$. NASA has been exploring space non stop using robotic missions - a whole lot cheaper and less risky than launching people on extended missions beyond earth orbit. The manned program has continued with Shuttle and International Space Station (ISS) missions.

Answer 3

Why should we go back? There is better things to do with the money that NASA gets than go back to the moon! We could be exploring the galexy and the rest of our solar system. We could look for life in the Milky Way Galaxy than go back the the moon and put another American Flag on it, there is already one there. We could also study the Sun and try and figure out when it will turn into a Red Giant and swallow up Mercury, Venus, and possibly us. We can see if we can keep the sun from going through its nature cycle and save teh Earth. Or, if we can't do that then, we can see if there is life on some other planet and go live witht hem so we won't die when the sun grows. Or, we can see if we can find a cure for cancer and global warming instead of investing our money in space, but settle our problems on the Earth, unless of course, we find another planet so we can live there and get away from the global warming.

Answer 4

Yes, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the Moon. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin was the second man on the Moon and both men were on Apollo 11 along with Michael Collins who was in the command module orbiting the Moon. In 2005, NASA announced that their goal was to get a man on the Moon in the year 2018. President Bush announced that he wanted to put a man on the Moon by the year 2020 to broaden space exploration throughout the solar system.

Answer 5

first of all , they have landed on the moon more than once as evident by this wikipedia information :

List of manned Moon landings

* Apollo 11 - July 16, 1969. First manned landing on the Moon, July 20.
* Apollo 12 - November 14, 1969. First precise manned landing on the Moon.
* Apollo 14 - January 31, 1971. Alan Shepard, the sole astronaut of the original Mercury Seven astronauts to land on the Moon, walks (and golfs) on the Moon.
* Apollo 15 - July 26, 1971. First mission with the Lunar Rover vehicle.
* Apollo 16 - April 16, 1972. First landing in the lunar highlands.
* Apollo 17 - December 7, 1972. Final Apollo lunar mission, first night launch, only mission with a professional geologist.



Secondly, why land on the moon various times if they alreayd obtained that infromattion they needed to obtain? there are other planets you know, maybe we should land on them before coming back to the moon again.

Answer 6

seriously do you pay attention to scinetific news, nasa is dissappearing they are mergeing with another company and they have said that they will be sending more people to the moon in the future, they are also building a rocket capable of this task, as well have you seen the pictures from thinks theyve tried to send up in space recently and those things malfunctioned it takes a lot of effort to something like send a person to the moon and their lives could be at stake

Answer 7

You're exactly right! I really wish I knew why NASA is not sending men back to the moon! They really ought to, because today's technology can accomplish that task so much better. Maybe NASA really is hiding something!

Answer 8

It's been brought up, Bush thought be should go back to the moon. To be honest there really isn't anything on the moon, it's just a big rock. The next goal is Mars. I really hope I see a successful Mars mission before I dies.

Answer 9

$$$$$$$

also, the Russians are not in a race with us like they once were. No race, no incentive.

Your congressmen do not provide the funds. However, if we ever discovered something on the Moon that was valuable enough to exploit, we would be there next year.

EARTH/SPACE TEACHER

Answer 10

If it's true that Neil Armstrong et al actually set foot on the Moon, the Usa has stopped bothering because they've done it.....and they did it first. That was the most important aspect of it all....to beat the Russians.