will we ever go to the moon again in this life time?
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I think we will.\n\nAfter all, Bush is trying hard to get to Mars, and to do this the moon is a good stepping stone.  NASA of course woundnt object to going back either.\nChina has set a goal for themselves to not only go, but set up a moon base aswell by 2020 (or maybe it was 2015?).  I have my doubts about China doing it, but the US has a good shot.\n\nThen when you take into account the private companies that are starting to get into space travel (with the success of SpaceShip One), there will be an even greater ability to go into space.  If the government doesnt do it, private industry will, there is definatly a market for people wanting to go into space and the moon.  How long it will take to get the price down enough for the average person to be able to afford it is a different story.\n\nIt will be sad if by 2069 (100 years after the first moon landing) that we still have only went there 6 times.
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As a tried and true Science Fiction, I like What Ifs as much as the next person.  I think it is important to keep it all in perspective. We did indeed put a man on the moon, but we have yet to find a way to teleport anything. \n\nTo answer your question, a discover of that magnitude could never be kept secret. The money to be made from such a technology would guarantee someone would either leak the secret or steal it.
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Outer space...and to the moon.
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Of course, we landed on the moon. C'mon, there would have had to been a massive conspiracy of hundreds of people employed at NASA and involved in the effort including hundreds of manufacturers and suppliers. There is no real debate.\nGo back? For what. It is a dead planet and we have learned what we need to know. The only reason to go back would to be to mine for valuable minerals which would be way to expensive at this point in time.
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A remote control camera was mounted on the leg of the lunar lander on each of the six moon landings.\n\n1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?  Who took the video of Neil Armstrong? \n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal well with all of the technical questions.\n\n\n7) Finally, please tell us what you would accept as definitive evidence that the six moon landings were real. Is there anything?
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Heck no.  We are going to the moon that year.  Pluto is a long way away.  If your thinking about thye robotic "new horizons" program, that will land on pluto in July, 2015.  Thats 5 years later.  I apolligize, but no.\n\nThe key is timing.  Only once every several hundred years can the planets align for a rocket to be sent to pluto.  It will last a while, but after that, your waiting for a long time.  I estimate we will return there in...say...2567 or something around that.  If we ever go to there...\n\nUnless I hibernate in my studies and become a god of wisdom and knowledge so i can path a path of good and truth to walk/teleport faster than anyone to get there.
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During the 60's, we spent a lot of money to get to the moon ahead of the Soviets. It was more political and less science.\n\nOnce we got there, we confirmed that it was just a giant hunk of rock.\n\nNow, it's more of a "been there, done that" attitude. It's expensive to get there, and there's no real reason to go back. It's like paying money to take a second vacation to the middle of a desert.
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Yes, we have the technology to do this now.  What's holding us back is the cost, not the tech.\n\nThe trip would be about six months each way using the engines we have now and gravity assists where possible.  The most likely scenario would be to first launch a series of un-manned "provision" ships to land on Mars or perhaps orbit it -- these would contain food, water, and fuel.  Once we had verified that they were safely at their destination, we would launch the manned ship -- which would carry enough provisions for a one-way trip, and upon arrival at Mars re-stock from the earlier unmanned ships and then return to Earth.  \nWe *could* fully provision a ship for a round-trip, but doing so makes the manned craft much larger and expensive, and lacks the backup of additional supplies existing at the destination.\n\nAll of this is already on NASA's drawing boards, though whether it will ever happen or not is completely a matter of $$ :)
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Virgin Galactic is offering this "as soon as 2008" for the low price of 100 million USD.  Realistically, it will probably take more than a few years to ramp up tourist missions to the moon, especially if no one is signing up...
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I would go to outer space. Orbit earth a couple times and then land on the moon for a little moon walking.
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No.  Even the Hubble Space Telescope cannot resolve objects as small as the Lunar Module or the Saturn IVB booster that were crashed on the the moon for seismic experiments.  The HST can resolve objects as small as 0.05 arcseconds.  To see the Lunar Module, it would have to resolve objects as small as 0.0005 arcseconds.  In other words, you'd need a telescope 100 times better than the HST and you'd need it to be in space.\n\nAnd just for the hoax lovers ...\n\n1) Twelve 12 American astronauts have walked on the moon.\n\nApollo 11: Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin\nApollo 12: Pete Conrad & Alan Bean\nApollo 13: << failed to land on the moon >>\nApollo 14: Alan Shepard & Edgar (Ed) Mitchell\nApollo 15: David Scott & James Irwin\nApollo 16: John Young & Charles Duke\nApollo 17: Eugene (Gene) Cernan & Harrison Schmidt\n\n\n2) Why haven't we been back?  \n\na) American astronauts visited the moon on six occasions.\n\nb) The "moon race" was an extension of the cold war. It was mostly about national prestige. We got there first and achieved our primary objective. There was some good science: surveys, measurements, sample collection. But it was mostly about being there first. Once we achieved our primary objective, there was no political will to go back. There still isn't.  Perhaps, if we discover He3 or something else valuable, there will be.\n\nc) I used to travel to Crested Butte, Colorado every year to ski. Because I don't go anymore, does it mean that I never went?\n\n\n3) What about the Van Allen radiation belts?  Wouldn't it have killed the astronauts?\n\nThe existence of the Van Allen radiation belts postulated in the 1940s by Nicholas Christofilos.  Their existence was confirmed in *1958* by the Explorer I satellite launched by the USA. \n\nThe radiation in the Van Allen radiation belts is not particularly strong.  You would have to hang out there for a week or so in order to get radiation sickness.  And, because the radiation is not particularly strong, a few millimeters of metal is all that is required for protection.  "An object satellite shielded by 3 mm of aluminum will receive about 2500 rem (25 Sv) per *year*."\n\n"In practice, Apollo astronauts who travelled to the moon spent very little time in the belts and received a harmless dose. [6]. Nevertheless NASA deliberately timed Apollo launches, and used lunar transfer orbits that only skirted the edge of the belt over the equator to minimise the radiation."  When the astronauts returned to Earth, their dosimeters showed that they had received about as much radiation as a couple of medical X-rays.\n\n\n4) The U.S. government scammed everyone?  \n\nIn 1972, there was a politically motivated burglary of a hotel room in the Watergate Hotel in Washington, D.C. There were only about six or eight people who knew about it. However, those people, including Richard M. Nixon, the President of the United States, failed to keep that burglary a secret. It exploded into a scandal that drove the President and a number of others from office.\n\nIf six or eight people couldn't keep a hotel room burglary a secret, then how could literally thousands of people could have kept their mouths shut about six faked moon landings? Not just one moon landing, but six of them!\n\n\n5) What about the USSR?  \n\nEven if NASA and other government agencies could have faked the six moon landings well enough to fool the general public, they could NOT have fooled the space agency or military intelligence types in the USSR. The Soviets were just dying to beat us. If the landings were faked, the Soviets would have re-engineered their N-1 booster and landed on the moon just to prove what liars Americans are. Why didn't they? Because the landings were real and the Soviets knew it.\n\n\n6) Why does the flag shake?  Where are the stars?  Who took the video of Neil Armstrong? \n\nTake a look at the first two websites listed below.  They deal wel
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sure, you just have to leave earth.  the acceleration on the moon is about 1.6 m/s^2.  so you'd need to go somewhere slightly larger than the moon, but not quite as large as the moon.  perhaps mars?  aha, on mars it is 3.7 m/s^2.  close enough?\n\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/MichaelRobbins.shtml\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2004/JahshirahRossi.shtml
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We visited the moon six times..Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17. We haven't been back because there is nothing there worth the expense of going. Each trip cost nearly half a billion dollars and that was in the early 70s.
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yes the moon landing was geniune. when i was a child i went to the science museum in london and there they have samples of moon rock that the astronauts bought back with them. there are also some photos that they had taken. so scientific fact! hope this helps. you can go onto the science museum (london) website to check this out. j
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I hope so...\n\nI would like to imagine a future of space travel for the human race.\n\nBut I have no expereince in the field to offer suggestions.
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They aren't. My brother works at the Keck telescope in Hawai'i, which is run by NASA, and they looked at the moon recently to get some information about possible landing sites for the new missions. But there's not much call to look at the moon any more, since we can get much better pictures from sending spaceprobes there.
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It is very technically feasible for humans to be able to live on another world. If we went ahead today we could have a pretty selfsustaining base on the moon in 20-30 years. \n\nMany aspects needs to be resolved and they are more biological than technical. Can we grow all the food we need on a body with a different gravitational field than Earths? Everything on Earth has evolved constantly exposed to earths gravity. We can grow simple plants on the ISS but the humans aboard will suffer dangerous health issues when exposed to longterm microgravity. What would these effects be on the moon? Less, probably, but will they still be there? And how will more complex plants fare on the moon? What about food that isn´t from plants at all? Can chickens and fish be produced on the moon? Will it be necessary for humans in space to be vegetarians since a Big Mac will be worth its weight in gold?\n\nHow long for a colony on another planet to be completely independent of Earth? I would say centuries if ever. Because how many nations are completely self reliant here on earth? Every nation imports and exports something. We are dependent of trade. Will there be such a thing between planets?\nEconomy is the most important factor in manned space exploration. If it hadn´t been for the Vietnam war we would have built the first permanently manned bases on the moon in the eighties. The war ended up costing 6 times as much as the Apollo programme. No wonder it got cancelled...