There are two main reasons we haven’t gone back to the moon.
1. It’s REALLY expensive. The Apollo Program cost $25 billion (which would be around $170 billion in today’s dollars). Many people considered continuing to go to the moon after beating the Russians a waste of money (I don’t agree, but I don’t get to decide what NASAs budget is).
2. Politics. One President will announce plans to return to the moon, another President will scrap those plans. NASA will be stuck in Low Earth Orbit until both political parties can agree on a long term goal (going to the moon, or to Mars, for example).
Apollo happened at a special time in American history. The United States was competing with the Soviets and this justified the cost of going to the moon for many people. Without that kind of competitive rivalry the United States has a hard time justifying an expensive space program today.
People saw Apollo as a race against the Russians. After the race was won people didn’t see the point in continuing to run.
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My main concern is that if they really did land on the moon in 1969, then why was there not a single attempt to repeat the feat
Ummm… NASA landed men on the Moon five more times after Apollo 11.
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For me it is that easy to say that the moon landings never happened.
Then you’re a gullible fool who hasn’t bothered to learn anything about Apollo.
And in a sense they never did because I wasn’t born yet when they occurred.
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I did not verify any of the “facts” stated here
Maybe you should. You’d look less like a fool if you didn’t constantly cite unverified claims.
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That is why no one takes you HBs seriously. You can’t get your stories straight. We see HBs saying robotic probes put the laser reflectors on the Moon… and then other HBs who say the lasers were simply reflected off …
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You can reflect a laser off the moon’s surface.
No reflector required.
True, but a lot more of the laser’s light is reflected when a reflector is used. The reflectors reflect all light back in the direction it came from. Light reflected …
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First of all, they DID do it again. Apollo 11 was not the only mission to the Moon… there were 6 landings (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17), one aborted landing (Apollo 13), and two lunar orbiting missions …
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The rovers were folded up and mounted on the outside of the Lunar Module (LM).
You can see what I mean in the following picture…
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“I would like to point out the Apollo 11 press conference. take a look at Neil Armstrong, he is very nervous and is very very thoughtful of the words he chooses.”
If you knew anything about Neil Armstrong you would understand …