Well many Americans went to the moon after the first moon landing. If you are talking about not going back since then, then here is your answer. Since America had already defeated the Soviet Union in the race to the moon and collected moon rocks we had no need to keep going. We then set our sights on developing a station were we could actually live an carry out expertiments in space. We completed this with the help of the space shuttle. Now that we have that behind us we have sets our sights back on living on the moon and hopefully living on Mars.
2007-06-12 08:11:35
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answered by Lighting Bolt 7 2
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Um, there was a second visit. And a third. And a fourth, fifth, and sixth. All six visits happened between 1969 - 1972.
The first visit was the famous Apollo 11 landing -- Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin the first men to walk on the moon -- on July 20, 1969. The mission was launched on July 16.
Second was Apollo 12 -- launched November 14, 1969.
Apollo 13 was aborted due to a catastrophic malfunction that nearly killed the crew.
The third landing was by Apollo 14 -- January 31, 1971.
The fourth was Apollo 15 -- July 26, 1971.
The fifth was Apollo 16 -- April 16, 1972.
The sixth was Apollo 17 -- December 7, 1972.
After that, the U.S. decided they'd gained all that was worth the risk and expense at the time, and stopped sending men to the Moon.
2007-06-12 08:27:04
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answered by Dave_Stark 7
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No second attempt? What do you think Apollo 12 was? How about Apollos 13-17? Seven missions were launched with the intention of landing on the Moon, and only one failed.
Even by the time of the first landing mission, the American taxpayer, who was funding the entire enterprise, was growing discontent with the amount being spent, and couldn't see the practical benefits once the race with the Russians to land on the Moon and demonstrate their technical superiority was won. That was perhaps the biggest tragedy of Apollo. Everyone doing the building work viewed it as the beginning of a continuous manned space venture, while those controlling the allocation of funds viewed it as a goal in and of itself. Apollo was expensive, and congress no longer felt they could approve the funding needed to maintain lunar missions. Money was cut, existing hardware was left unused, and all NASA's grand plans of lunar colonies and men on Mars by the 1980s were crushed.
2007-06-12 08:09:58
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answered by Jason T 7
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There were more landings...
Apollo 11 - Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
Apollo 12 - Pete Conrad, Alan Bean
Apollo 14 - Alan Shepherd, Edgar Mitchell
Apollo 15 - David Scott, James Irwin
Apollo 16 - John W. Young, Charles Duke Jr
Apollo 17 - Eugene A. Cernan, Harrison H. Schmitt
*Apollo 13 didn't land because their spacecraft was damaged by an oxygen tank explosion.
2007-06-12 08:09:44
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answered by Tsumego 5
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There were a total of six (..6..) manned lunar landings. Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17. Twelve (..12..) Americans have walked and road on the lunar surface.
2007-06-12 08:06:03
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answered by Chug-a-Lug 7
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There were six successful moon landings by American astronauts.
2007-06-12 13:56:00
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answered by Anonymous
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THere were a total of six landings not just one. After that, the US was more woried about poverty, ending the Viet Nam war and other concerns besides spending a half billion dollars a launch.
2007-06-12 08:05:23
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answered by Gene 7
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apollo 11
apollo 12
apollo 14
apollo 15
apollo 16
apollo 17
all landed on the moon
2007-06-12 08:18:02
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answered by crazydrummer347 2
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2016-10-09 01:43:42
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answered by ? 4
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Because once the Soviet Union admitted defeat in the moon race, there was no more public or political will in the US to spend such high amounts of time and money on something viewed as repetitive and wasteful.
2007-06-12 08:05:15
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answered by JLynes 5
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