Notice that I asked if we would ever get to the moon and not if we will get there again?  If we actually went the first time why has it taken us almost 40 years to decide to go back and why are we going to have to wait until 2015 to go somewhere we've supposedly already been?  For that matter, why do we need to design a new space vehicle to get there?  Why not just dig up the plans for the old Apollo era rockets and modernize them and put them to work at low costs?  And what is on the moon that we didn't get in the six missions that we supposedly made there?  I smell something poopy.
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why did u remove ur question about christians in the mid-east. Damn u man, i had a GREAT answer to ur question that i put A LOT of thought into, and then i click submit, and it says u removed the question. i am so pissed. it took me like 15 minutes to write my respone. WHY WHY WHY. I put alot of thought into that. it was a REAL GREAT ANSWER, AND I AM VERY PROUD OF IT.
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Several points.\n\n1. Did you notice that there was smoke on the asteroid? How can you have wispy smoke where there is no atmosphere?\n\n2. The one bozo goes "space happy" and starts firing a gigantic weapon on the asteroid. Excuse me? Why would you bring artillery with you on this mission. What did they expect to find -- Martians? If time is of the essense, why would you even bother to unpack it and set it up? Does any of this make ANY sense at all???\n\n3. The specific gravity on an asteroid would make conventional movement as depicted in this film impossible. There's no way they could drive around and do the things they do in such low gravity.\n\n4. the concept of a single nuclear warhead splitting in two an asteroid the size of texas is simply beyond the pale of accepted physics. If that were possible, the repeated underground nuclear tests conducted by the government in Nevada years ago would have split California off from the continent decades ago.\n\n5. During the trip to the moon, the people are experiencing g-forces that would compress any living thing to protoplasm. It is physically impossible to survive the calculated g-forces the film puts them through. And yet -- two things-- ONE: they continue to be able to speak (which means they have complete control of their breathing -- an impossibility), and TWO: people who are totally out of shape like these wildcatters somehow survive it -- an ABSOLUTE impossibility). \n\nThere are probably tons of other mistakes in this turkey, but this is all I can recall off the top of my head. I've tried to blot this film from my memory, and this is the best I can do. Hope it's enough.
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Show the logistics of building a space station. i.e. First you would have to get a few modules built, then stock the modules with what you would need to continue. Figure in you are only allow to carry a limited amount of weight every time the shuttle leaves Earth. What would you bring first, second, third, etc. Who would you need to have up there? A pilot of the shuttle, some mechanics, maybe a physician - when would you be able to add solar panels for power? You can make it as involved as you want to.
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He's talking nonsense. First off NASA would never fire anyone for not being a christian, even back then. Second off, I grew up a county away from where Neil Armstrong is from (wapakoneta, Ohio) so he was touted as a local hero, we learned more about him than most do. He had a career after the moon landing and retired normally. The only thing odd about him is that he is very reclusive today and hardly ever comes out to speak with the press.
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"and why if they went to the moon, the flag was moving, ther eis no wind in space."\n\nNASA spent the big bucks on this one.  They wanted to leave a flag on the moon, but one problem.  There is gravity on the moon, but no air, and no wind.  So the flag would flop, just like a windless day.\n\nSo they wanted the flag to hang unfurled without wind.  So they put a bar across the top of the flag, so that it would stretch out.  They also put a weight in the lower outside corner, also to stretch it out.  When the flag was released, the weight moved back and forth, like a pendulum, causing a waving motion in the flag.\n\nSorry to disappoint, but we really were there.  The best website addressing this is www.badastronomy.com
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it was really only recently that we started exploring the galaxies, when u think about it.  we only went to the moon in 1969, and now we have made some significant changes, but i think that it will take some momentum for us to get further and further into space exploration and than we will have space exploration higher and higher until either a disaster happens or there are no humans.  i think that we r already making some significant progress, but i believe that the space programs will be making more significant progresses once we make cars that can use renewable energies.  than i think that ppl will start to look more and more towards the space and galaxy exploration.
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One thing that makes me mad is all the STUPID people who make fun of the moon landings etc. Some MORONS actually believe they never took place, based on ridiculous assumptions that they have read on the Internet, rather than something their own tiny, ridiculously distorted intellect  could even begin to comprehend. Fortunately for some stupid, slack jawed lack-wits, this forum precludes me from actually telling the inbred intellectually challenged crossbreeds what I actually think of them.  For those brave enough to face the TRUTH that man did walk on the moon etc  go here http://www.clavius.org   I MEAN YOU 'PIXIE'  FFS are you so totally stupid as to not believe in Satellites etc. You should be locked away in the asylum for the clinically untreatable morons who believe any fact that they are told without question. As for the Van Allen belt.. ha ha ha ha.I am sick of explaining why that is not a show stopper, but very few people have the intelligence to understand, then again they are usually the gullible ones taken in by the conspiracy theory and incapable of autonomous thought.\n\nOh, and another thing! PIXIE, when you grow up, learn to spell. You do yourself and your fellow idiots no favours by spouting unsubstantiated rubbish, but also spelling what you write incorrectly!  YOU MORON  (Unless you are under 7 years of age then I apologise as you would know no better)
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we never went there in the first place it was a hoax to show the world that the USA was Superior to the USSR . they cant do a hoax  now because the technology the public have is to good . if we did go and it was possible to resist the radiation on the moon we would have company's sending people there all the time look at all the money they would make . where there is money there is a will . but if it is not possible then no one will try.
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Look at how many sattelites we put up... there is something wrong with your reasoning, you're ignoring a lot of the facts.  How is it more difficult now?  A civilian recently built and flew his own spacecraft into space 3 times successfully.  Hundreds of satellites are orbiting the earth as we speak.  How does it seem space travel is more difficult?  We have several astronauts in a spacestation right now... Civilians have purchased tickets into space, the people on the space station have been relieve, replaced, etc multiple times... As far as the moon goes, there really isn't/wasn't any reason to go back, not a whole lot there if ya know what I mean ;)  They're working on mars projects continuously... just because a few landers and orbiters crash doesn't mean things are more difficult.  If you do some research you will find literally hundreds of crashes, mislaunches, explosions, and other quality errors; the old times make the number and degree of current mistakes seem almost trivial.  Science and technology have proven themselves time and time again when it comes to space, and it keeps getting better.
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First of all Come on you GUNNERS!!!\n\nI do hope that we did land on the moon cos i want to do it one day
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Because it was mostly for show. Remember, the Americans went to the moon in the times of the cold war. It was a show of power - getting there before the soviets. Once they did, it was decided after a few years that the money trown at each trip wasn't worth it. Congress doesn't exactly go giddy with the possibility of great scientific discovery and they're the ones who give out the money.\nNASA has plans of going back to the moon in about 10 years time, including possibly building a permanent station there in the (relatively) near future. But a long time has been lost. Also, given the world situation these days hte best to do this is with joint internation efforts. If everybody can just keep their own personal interest out of it, so it can remain purely scientific, everything will be just peachy.
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Lost on the Moon\nLogic constructions; reasoning & evaluation skills\n\nYour spaceship has just crash-landed on the moon.  You were scheduled to rendezvous with a mother ship, 200 miles away on the lighted surface of the moon, but the rough landing has ruined your ship and destroyed all the equipment aboard, except for the 15 salvageable items listed below.\n\nYour survival depends on reaching the mother ship, so you must choose the most critical items available for the 200 mile trip.\n\nYour task is to rank the 15 salvageable items in terms of what you think is important to your survival, starting with “1” as the most important.\n\nList of Salvageable ItemsIndividual RankingGroup RankingNASA’s Ranking\nBox of Matches\nFood Concentrate\nFifty feet of Nylon Rope\nParachute Silk\nSolar Powered Portable Heating Unit\nTwo Paintball Guns\nOne Case of Dehydrated Milk\nTwo 100-pound Tanks of Oxygen\nStellar Map of the Moons’ Star Field\nSelf-Inflating Life Raft\nMagnetic Compass\nFive Gallons of Water\nSignal Flares\nFirst Aid Kit\nSolar Powered FM Receiver-Transmitter\n\nIf you get me your email address, I will send you the word document.\n\nI don't have NASA's rankings on me, they are at school.  I use this activity every year, the kids really seem to like it!
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the space shuttle is basically designed to place satellites in orbit and is not for going to the moon. if it could it would take approx 2 to 3 days. in the 60's when we actually could go to moon the apollo program used massive saturn five rockets just to get out of earth orbit. nasa are currently working on a new rocket based moon  program. try www.nasa.com for more info.
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Well, you are right in one thing!\n\nWE didn´t land on the moon. \nNeil Armstrong did, and the other poor astronaut that for landing second on the moon got to never be remembered.\n\nWhat´s with the WE? \n\nBut getting serious with your question, there are some conspiracy theories about it.\nThey say that the USA knew of the Soviets plans to go the moon, and since we where in the middle of the Cold War, oppinion and image WAS EVERYTHING, so the USA mounted a Fake stage of the moon, launched a rocket and claim to be the first ones in the moon.\n\nThere has never been any evidence of the moon landing not ever taking place.
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Cartman - of course men walked on the moon.\n\nIgnoring all the tosh that the TV programme came up with (which has been shot down in flames so many times now I've lost count) and the fact that some people on here seem to be happy to believe any old rubbish without so much as a cursory look at the evidence, there are three things that clinch it for me.\n\n1. The moon rock that was brought back is different from anything anywhere else on Earth and has been portioned out to so many different universities and research labs that someone by now would have said that the rock was hoaxed.\n\n2. NASA employed thousands of people during the Apollo missions. None of them (other than one or two nut-cases who are trying to make a name or, more likely a bit of fast cash) have said that it was all a hoax. Don't you think that far more people would have come out and said something by now.\n\n3. Last, but absolutely not least, the Apollo missions left an experiment on the surface of the moon that allows an Earth-bound laser to be fired at it and reflected back to Earth so that the distance from Earth to Moon can be measured with extreme accuracy. I believe this measurement is taken with monotonous regularity. How would this be possible unless one of the astronauts set the reflector up on the surface of the moon?\n\nSo to answer your questions.\n\nThe kit they used may look like it came from Blue Peter, but then so did the ships that first crossed the Pacific or the Atlantic (how about Heyerdahl's balsawood raft Kon-Tiki ?)\n\nDon't get misled by the old computing power routine. It is perfectly possible to achieve many, many things without the aid of a computer. All a computer does is to speed up the processes. We are all losing sight of this fact as we get wrapped up in technology.\n\nDon't know what you mean by never attempted it again. The Apollo missions landed 12 men on the moon - what could be benefited by going again?  If you go back to my point 2, the amount of money required for the Apollo missions was colossal - NASA's funding was massively reduced and focus shifted to reusable space craft (the shuttle), and manned satellite stations (SkyLab) as the next step towards exploration further afield.\n\nIt has been proved a zillion and one times that the flag "fluttered" because it was wired to make it stand up. As there is no atmosphere on the moon (and therefore no air resistance), once the flag wire was touched or let go it continued to flex backwards and forwards (ie. it fluttered).\n\nWe have a tendency to underestimate the capability of previous generations. Thats why we have people who say aliens built the pyramids and space astronauts built Macchu Picchu. Let's (for once) celebrate the ingenuity and undeniable bravery of the men who risked their lives in the pursuit of exploration.
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yeah men, pointing itself, no dust over the legs on landing, no proves at all, and we already know that with the tecnology of the 60 it will be a surprise if they could be able just to hit the moon with the rocket, actually, many years later still Nasa was proving materials to suport speed over MATCH, and plus the space clothes...for God sake...really...the most expensive and bad movie ever...
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No, the moon landing was not a hoax.\n\nOn one of the moon landings, the astronauts left a mirror on the surface of the moon which is being used even today to measure the distance between the earth and moon with lasers.\n\nWhat is the point of sending more people there?  We've developed robotics to the point where unmanned probes can go more cost effectively, with lower risk to human life, and they can stay longer.  Take the Mars rovers.  They've been on Mars roaming around for more than a year, collecting samples, taking pictures, measuring the soil and atmosphere.  They don't require food or water.  They don't get lonely for their loved ones.  If the "die", no one will mourn them.  Frankly, it makes little sense to send someone to the Moon (again) or Mars to perform these tasks.\n\nBut, back in the 60's, robotics were not so sophisticated.  Sending a person to do the job made more sense.  A human could control the space craft.  A human could make course corrections.  A human could pick up rocks, put them in a bag, and bring them back.  Yeah, the technology was primitive, but primitive technology has not stopped humans from doing amazing things.