With todays technology wouldn't going to the moon be a 'piece of cake'?

Question

i heard someone say once that a mobile phone today is more technologically advanced than that tech. used in the apollo years.

Answer 1

well going to the moon is very expensive thats why we don't go to the moon anymore

Answer 2

The computers in the space shuttle wouldn't rival a computer that you'd actually want to use in school today. The computers they used in the Apollo program wouldn't rival modern calculators. But that's not all that it took to get to the moon. Going to the moon isn't, and never will be, a piece of cake. Technology will never fix how hostile the environmnent is, or how great the challenge is. Watch "Apollo 13", and think about it... it doesn't matter how good the technology is, sitting in a tin can 250,000 miles from earth is still a pretty precarious thing to do.

Yes... our technology is better in many ways, but I don't think it will ever make a trip to the moon a trivial undertaking.

Answer 3

going to the moon is an incredible technical challenge even today. think about it, no other nation has been able to send a man to the moon since the us did it 35 years ago! only 3 nations have been able to put a man in space!! space travel is so difficult in part because of the tremendous energies involved. to accelerate humans to 25000 miles per hour, thats almost mach 40!, sustain a safe environment for 2 or more weeks, and decelerate back to 0 again all while keeping fragile organisms in one piece will be a risky business for a long time to come. the current nasa moon program, project constellation is targeted to land humans on the moon in 2005, 11 years from the start of the project. thats an indication of the magnitude of this challenge today. the fact that we sadly lost only 3 astronauts in apollo is incredible when you consider the great risk involved in space travel. of 5 space shuttles built only 3 survive. we're far from mastering spaceflight but we're on the way.

Answer 4

Not sure what your're wanting to know. Going to the moon would be a peice of cake today, however, not financially responsible. We have already conquered that area and done the research. So at the moment there is no reason to go there. Thats why the space program focuses on other things.

Answer 5

Like a lot of other areas nowadays, the skills and experience involved in building vehicles involved in lunar exploration have been lost, as the people who did it haven't been able to "keep their hand in" or pass on the knowledge to the next generation. Although there are detailed records of the Apollo programme, they are no substitute for personal experience and apprenticeship, which requires the people involved, who are now quite old or dead, so we would have to start from scratch.

Answer 6

It is a piece of cake --but the ingredients to make it are very expensive-so why not use the money to go somewhere there may be something other than rocks and dust?

Answer 7

It won't put air on the Moon, or make it any closer.
It just makes calculations quicker, and manufacturing of precision parts easier.
The logistics are still the same. Gravity needs to be overcome to leave the Earth, suits still have to be airtight, waste still needs to be dealt with.
It would be easier than before, but still not easy.

Answer 8

Seems even today with the latest tech we still couldn't put a man on moon safely,when they could do it easily in 1967 go figure, something doesn't add up in the henhouse me thinks hmmm LOL ♥

Answer 9

An extremely expensive, unnecessary piece of cake, maybe.

Answer 10

No not piece of cake, But a piece of cheese

Answer 11

The moon's made of cheese everyone knows that