Why do you think the moon is the only place people have visited so far?

Answer 1

It's very simple. Everything else is MUCH farther away. The nearest place that we would consider going to, other than the moon, is Mars, and that's at LEAST a six month trip out, a year on Mars waiting for the two planets to line up properly again, and a six month trip back, for a total of two years. We are not yet at the stage where we can construct a space vessel large enough to store all of the food, water, oxygen, and other consumables that such a trip would require. Trips beyond Mars would take even longer, thus requiring still larger ships. We're still very new at spacefaring - give it time.

Answer 2

It's by far the closest and easiest place to get to. The next closest place is Venus, which is hot enough to melt your space suit. The next closest is Mars, which requires a trip many hundreds of times farther than the moon, and would take about 8 months instead of 2 days. Then, once you got there, you couldn't come right back, because you'd have to wait for the earth & mars to line up correctly again. You'd have to spend something like 2 years away from earth. So that means that you'd need to come up with life support systems that are a lot more advanced than the lunar ones, which only last a few weeks.

Answer 3

Because the only reason we have even gone to the moon is
politics. we were the first to land because the soviets had
beaten us to the satellite, the first living creature in space, the
first person in space, etc. So we HAD to win or else the
Soviets would have won and then we would have been the
laughing stock of the world.
And, of course, since the hype all died down after subsequent moon landings, there was continually less money and resources and brilliant thinkers looking for more efficient vehicles and fuels. so the space program has been slowly degenerating until the day that the government thinks that it could be useful for something again.

Answer 4

Well, the moon is the only place that humans have walked on, but probes have been sent to other planets. One reason I assume is because the outer planets (Jupiter - Neptune) are made of gases. Venus has a toxic atmosphere. Mercury is extremely bright and hot. Pluto is extremely dark and cold. That's probably why.

Answer 5

It took $30,000,000,000.00 dollars and 400,000 people working 9 years to get to the moon. How do you keep that a secret?

Going anywhere else will be an even LARGER undertaking than
going to the moon because anywhere else is much much farther away.

If you can't keep going to the moon a secret you can't keep going to Mars (for instance) a secret.

Answer 6

Because it is by FAR the closest and easiest place to reach. A 1 week round trip compared to a two year round trip to Mars.

Answer 7

Because they have not made it afficial that it is safe enough for humans to go to Mars. Even some machines couldn't survive. The moon is as good as it get's YET.

Answer 8

After NASA's six Moon landing they lost some funding. So with less money that menat that they could not do anything big.

Answer 9

I used to visit my Grandpa...

He lived in a white house with red shutters.

He was old and smelled funny.

Now, I am old and try to shower a lot just in case I smell funny, too.

No one in my family ever come visit me, though.

:-(

Answer 10

1) Because it's the fastest thing to get to by far.

2) Because it takes 3 years just to get to Mars.

3) Because you need to carry your food and water and fuel with you for the whole trip and the trip back.

4) Because NASA has the smallest budget of any gov't agency.