Answer me this why is it that over 40 years ago we put a man on the moon but havent been back yet?

Question

In my opinon I dont think we went just because we havent gone back so just let me know your opinons without swearing please

Answer 1

We put a total of six manned missions on the moon. None of them found anything that represented a viable return on the investment. In other words, commercially it's just not worth going back.

Answer 2

Nasa developed Apollo with one goal in mind. To beat the Russians to the moon. Too little thought was given to what to do once they got there. The lunar prospecting was an afterthought. In order to sustain it's existance NASA thought the next step should be a moon base, a reusable shuttle, a space station, or a maned mission to Mars. The mission to Mars it was decided was beyond the technology of the day, and the cost of a moon base or a space station was deemed beyond the shrinking budget of the agency.

Once again NASA want to go back to the Moon, and this time to eventually build a base that would be eventually permanently manned. They are going to retire the Space Shuttle and replace it with the Orion C.E.V. (Crew Exploration Vehicle) It will not have wings and NASA will no longer use the same vehicle to carry cargo and people. A separate heavy lift vehicle the Orion V, is going to be built...(roman numeral five as a tribute to the Saturn V), and they will use Earth orbit rendezvous when the system is used for a Moon landing. NASA had it's hands tied when it developed the Shuttle.
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After the Apollo program ended there was a real possibility, incredible as it may sound, that there would not be any U.S. manned space program AT ALL! The program was never meant to go any further than Apollo 20 which was canceled along with Apollo 18 and 19. The decision to build the space shuttle passed through congress in 1972(by one vote)

Answer 3

Going to the moon is ridiculously expensive. we got all the samples we needed, so going back wouldn't be worth the cost. The money could be used to fund more beneficial explorations. It did happen though. i read this about it anyway:

" These accusations flourish in part because predictions by enthusiasts that Moon landings would become commonplace have not yet come to pass. Some claims can be empirically discredited by three retroreflector arrays left on the Moon by Apollo 11, 14 and 15. Today anyone on Earth with an appropriate laser and telescope system may bounce laser beams off of these devices, verifying deployment of the Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment at historically documented Apollo moon landing sites.

In addition, close scrutiny of film footage of the EVA's shows clearly something that could not be replicated in an Earth sound-stage. Lunar dust kicked up by the astronauts and the Lunar Rovers shoot up quite high due to the low gravity, but settles just as rapidly as there is no air to support it. Watching this film footage, and comparing it to footage from the Tom Hanks TV Series From the Earth to the Moon - which does show dust clouds resulting from the actors' spacesuits kicking up dust - shows this difference clearly."

there are more planned voyages that are to occur by 2019.

Answer 4

Until recently there was no reason to return to the moon. There were several reason to go to the moon and most were met. The risk are great (remember Apollo 13) and 'just because' it not reason enough to return.
If water is found on the moon there may be another mission to the moon.
Also the video of the moon landing is so bad due to how the picture was sent to the public. In simple terms they pointed a camera at a TV screen.
The original footage is much clearer.

Answer 5

We were there and it was mainly due to the fact that we were in a space race with the Soviets. The mentality was that the US had to get there first since they lost face with Sputnik. After that was over we pretty much had an arms race and space focused on the shuttle for reusable vehicles. Now there are plans to go back after the fleet is retired in 2010 and it is very close to the old Apollo style with today's technology in it.

The "moon landing was a hoax" deal is just conspiracy nonsense. 40 years and no one said anything? Geez, we can't go two minutes without knowing what celebrities eat, so I think someone that helped with the hoax would have said something by now.

Answer 6

The moon landing was an experiment. They just wanted to know if it was possible. There was nothing there of note and it was reliased the only imediate beifit to space exploration was satalite technology.

The moon shots were also a way to get the public on side to fund missile testing.

You have to remember the apollo (saturn) rockets were just misiles with men on board.

China is planing a visit in the near future. The moon will be best used as a lunch pad for further maned exploration of the solar system.

Answer 7

Well technically the first manned landing was 38 years ago and the last was 35 years ago.
At the time (1972) there were other calls on the money and the strategic decision taken was to try to develop a reuseable system that would lower the cost to launch to LEO. That system of course ran into mounting problems and overruns and there has been little stomach since to invest the money needed for a return to the Moon.

Answer 8

I realize that it is your opinion that you don't think we actually went to the moon, but how do you explain "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" ??
http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html
Much less the recordings from the trip?
Now i do understand your concern because i have had the same concern myself, however the trip to the moon was "one small step". It has paved the way for much larger missions which our coutry's Aerospace program is working on right now. The link to NASA's website that i gave you has a great deal of information about many of the missions from the past as well as the future missions.
So please before you jump to the conclusion that because we havn't been back to the moon in a while, we never went at all, understand our program is frying much larger fish if you pardon the pun.

Answer 9

seven manned missions were flown, and six were successful. so they did go back, five times. by the sixth trip, no one cared to watch on tv. manned missions were essentially a cold war publicity stunt, and then the cold war ended. more exploration was achieved by going to the moon (and far beyond) with robotic spacecraft. not as glamorous, but far more pragmatic. only engineers mourn for robots when they cease functioning, and they are a lot more hardy than humans in space.

it's been at least a thousand years since anyone built a pyramid. i guess that proves that aliens did it, huh?

Answer 10

I was born in 59, was in elementary school when the moon shots started. You don't seem to believe they happened, well I think they did. Even given all the lies our government spits at us these days, I believe the men who actually sat on the candles. Yes we should go back and live there. It will be our first step to the stars. ....LONG LIVE THE ASTRONAUTS!