If we went to the moon in 1968, why hasn't any other country done it since that time?

Question

One would think Russia, China or Japan would have done it by now. Perhaps we really didn't go....

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

First of all, it wasn't 1968...it was 1969.

I have answered this question too many times here already. Do some research and think! No one else has the funds to get up there. Japan has no astronauts, their space program is just beginning to flourish, and China didn't get their first people into space until just 3 or 4 years ago. Russia didn't have the resources, and still doesn't.

We don't go now because it is expensive, dangerous, and our resources are being pulled (but not for much longer) to building the ISS. And to do that, they have to have the space shuttle which has been flying since 1981 and was in development after the Apollo moon era...THAT is why we haven't gone since then.

Brookievangogh needs to think too. I might agree with some of your politics...but analyze the film footage? Go ahead! I dare you! Any video and physicst can easily authenticate it. Or, you could just ask Buzz Aldrin. Careful though, he might deck you! He takes that sort of thing personally...and rightfully so.


1968? Are you kidding?

Answer 3

Why bother! Any cost/benefit analysis would come up saying NO!. The US did it to prove the superiority of their technology to the world and more particularly to the USSR. No nation now has that perceived political imperative (OK, maybe China).
As for whether the US actually went there in the first place..of course they did! But if George Dubya had been president at the time I wouldn't have believed it!

Answer 4

You mean 1969...and then in 1970, 1972, and 1973.

Russia was actually the first to land an unmanned probe on hte moon, and they sent several moon rover robotic missions there in the 1970's. The ESA has sent a lunar orbital probe, but that's it. It's been just us and Russia that have done anything significant.

Answer 5

It appears to me that we never really went, if you analyze the footage taken at the time of the supposed landing, it shows more gravity then it should, in other words, I just think is a poor video that must have been recorded here on earth, look at our movies today, film making sure has come a long way since; now Russia is no longer a world super power and the Marathon long since over, Japan on the other hand is too busy making us Americans spend all our money on their economy. now China is a whole new ball game, yeah, why doesn't China go? because they know we never went.

Answer 6

you opt for to be extra valuable recommended. Apollo 11 and 12 effectively landed in 1969. After the failed Apollo 13 in 1971, Apollo 14, 15, 16, and 17 landed effectively in 1971 and 1972. See the source for complete archives, consisting of VIDEO of the flag no longer WAVING.

Answer 7

Cost and Expertise. The US spent huge sums of money to go to the moon. While going into space has become more commonplace, it isn't anywhere near being easy or cheap.

The claim is that there have been many advances in electronics, sciences, etc. due to going the specific needs of going into space. I think that if we spend the $$ wisely, those advances and many others would have been a reality regardless of the space angle

Answer 8

It's too expensive and dangerous specially for those countries without enought scientifyc and tecnologyc developments. I think that the other countries which are able to send misions to the moon give a best use to the money what they would spend improving tecnologies for more practical uses, such as medicine, industry products, etc.

Answer 9

Because the Russians gave up when the US beat them to it. Although they later claimed thy never were in a race to put a man on the moon. Other countries did / do not have the technology.

Answer 10

WE WENT TO THE MEOON. If the USSR, who had both the capacity to verify that we went technologically and a vested interest in our failure never doubted it, why do you?

We have gone back, but not in a long time. The price:benefit ratio was too high to justify further missions.