moon landing?

Question

why has there not been another moon landing since the first one 40 years ago?

Surely technological advancements would have made it easier/ cheaper/ quicker...

*alleged first landing

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

The first one was to prove it could be done and to beat the Soviet Union to it. We were involved in a race with them and President John Kennedy pushed hard for a meaningless journey to the moon. There was more than one manned lunar landing, by the way. Check your facts.

Since then we have focused on other space goals and have done very well with them. We will go back to the moon when technology allows us to colonize, not before. The moon is not that great a stepping stone to the other planets because of its gravity well. Instead, a space station would serve the purpose far better and that has been the focus.

If you are implying there was no trip to the moon you really need to get a life. You are living in a fantasy world.

Answer 3

During the Apollo program during the late 60s and 70s, congress had continued to cut funding for additional landings beyond Apollo 17 in 1972. There were additional landings planned but they were scrubbed. The entire moon landing effort cost 24 billion back then, a mere pittance today.

The public lost interest in going to a dead rock orbiting our earth.

Soon after apollo, the space shuttle program was born with the first glide landing in 1981. the shuttle program has been plagued with failures and delays, and its share of tragic losses.

There has been talk lately of going back to the moon but I do not see the reason unless we intend to build a station there. But we do not have the technology now to excavate and build on the moon.

I do not see us going back to the moon in the next 20 years. I predict a Mars landing will happen before 2020.

Answer 4

The technological advances in the past 40 years have been in electronics, computers, biology and things like that. A computer today can do a million times more work at a millionth the cost of one from 1970.

Unfortunately rocket technology has not advanced much at all. The space shuttle main engines work exactly like the J-2 engine on the Saturn V. A rocket capable of going to the Moon costs just as much today as it did in 1970. The same applies to all kinds of transportation. A car today is not cheaper or better (not much better anyway) than one from 1970. Neither is an airplane.

Answer 5

There have been 5 other landings since the first one. They have not gone back since Apollo 17 because they have concentrated on the Science lab, and shuttle missions. High Earth Orbit has been NASA's mission for the past 30 years. They look to go back now to gain more information about the moon yes, but also long duration space flight and extra planet living. They will stay longer, but not long enough to be there in the dark.
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Answer 6

The moon landings were genuine. placing aside each and each of the "info" on the opposite for a second, only evaluate this: so very a lot of human beings could have had to be in on the conspiracy that there is not any way that the secret could were saved. no matter if particular brokers went round to each person engaged on the undertaking and threatened to kill them and their complete kinfolk in the adventure that they blabbed, someone could have enable the secret slip, extraordinarily after 30+ years. guy hasn't lengthy gone back to the moon because of the price and for the straightforward undeniable reality that there is not any reason to.

Answer 7

Anyone who says the first one was faked is ignorant. The accusation that it was fake was started by the flat earth society in an attempt to put down the fact that the photo's of the earth showed it was round. If you believe it was fake, your society is calling you.

We haven't been back because of the cost. At a cost of $28 billion dollars for Apollo, the country wasn't going to pay a few billion a trip. It was supporting the war in Viet Nam at the time and programs were turning more toward social issues and away from science.

Answer 8

"why has there not been another moon landing since the first one 40 years ago?
Surely technological advancements would have made it easier/ cheaper/ quicker..."

Absolutely you are right !
And it absolutely doesn't make any sense that there has not been any moon landing in the past 40 years.

Answer 9

Because the Americans landed there first and the other countries lost interest.What was the point of spending enormous amounts of money to go to a place where someone else had been their first.

Answer 10

there has been 6 since the 1969 apollo mission. all of them in the 1970's.