Why hasn't there been another MANNED mission to the moon?
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There are going to be very soon.\nCheck out NAsa.com or search your local news website for future Moon landing and you'll see the progress that we have been making in that aspect.
646581
Undoubtedly our moon has been impacted by asteroids and other objects that otherwise would have struck Earth. If the moon wasn't there, then it follows that we might be struck more frequently.
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According to Wikipedia, Apollo 11 took five days to reach the moon: they took off on July 16th, 1969, and reached the moon on July 21st, 1969.\n\nLater missions took as little as 3 days to complete.
960677
Yeah, I was born just in time to see the last apollo mission fly there.\n\nWill they go back? I sure hope so.  Just because there's no oil doesn't mean it's a worthless rock.  That worthless rock can be built into electronics, and solar panels.  A band of bottom line quality solar panels of a kilometer in width made to span the equator of the moon would put out a third of the energy needs for the world today.  There's a lot of lunar surface out there, and microwave relay stations can send that power anywhere you want.\n\nThere's also the whole helium three thing, but I dunno if that's really going to work or not.\n\nAnd of course, there's space tourism.  The old folks are sure to love spending some time on the moon, what with the romance of a full earth in view, and one sixth gravity to help them get around (and get it on!)\n\nPlus, the earth is so close, that you could use remote controlled robots operated by people on earth to do the construction work, so lunar colonies could make for more jobs down here.
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Apollos 8, 10-17 travelled to the moon. That's 9x3=27 astronauts. As far as I know there were three astronauts that went twice, so 24 astronauts travelled to the moon.\n\nHere is the list of peaple that *walked* on the moon.\n\n   1. Neil Armstrong - Apollo 11 - July, 1969\n   2. Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin - Apollo 11 - July, 1969\n   3. Charles "Pete" Conrad - Apollo 12 - November, 1969    4. Alan Bean - Apollo 12 - November, 1969\n   5. Alan Shepard - Apollo 14 - February, 1971\n   6. Edgar Mitchell - Apollo 14 - February, 1971\n   7. David Scott - Apollo 15 - July, 1971\n   8. James Irwin - Apollo 15 - July, 1971\n   9. John Young - Apollo 16 - April, 1972 \n  10. Charles Duke - Apollo 16 - April, 1972\n  11. Eugene Cernan - Apollo 17 - December, 1972 \n  12. Harrison Schmitt - Apollo 17 - December, 1972
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Like the others who have responded, Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk on the moon. He was so effected by the experience and also having completed such a long sought after goal that he had to have some emotional guidance from a counselor after his return. I'm not saying that he had a breakdown he just needed help to get his mind all the way around what had happened to him.
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The current administration set a goal of Moon 2020 and Mars 2030.  To send a mission to Mars by 2015 would be unbelievably expensive, as we still need many new technologies to be invented before we can go for a reasonable price.
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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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We've sent 9 missions to the Moon. Apollo 8 and 10 orbited the Moon only. Apollo 13 had an explosion on the way out, swung around the Moon, and came back to Earth. Apollo 11,12,14,15,16,and 17 landed on the Moon as the Command Modules with one astronaut aboard orbited the Moon. (Apollo 7, the first succesful flight stayed in Earth orbit, and Apollo 9 also stayed in Earth orbit to test the first Lunar Module that was manned.)
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there was a unmanned moon mission a couple of years before the manned, I'm not sure of the timespan. I think someone else can build on it.but anyway the astronauts went to this vehicle and pulled the camera lens, took it back, swabbed it and found that some one contaminated the interior with a sneeze or something. They fed it and sure enouph bacteria sprang up ready to rock. Gives you the spooks don't it
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did you forget space?  we landed on the moon some time ago.. no air on the way there.. \n\nbut thats the one that has to be explored more.. planes that exit the atmosphere and return would be able to fly so much faster.. LA- Tokyo 2 hrs
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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 looks like China will be the next nation to land people on the moon.\n\nThe Russians landed a vehicle called a Lunokhod there once.\n\nIf you Google 'Lunokhod' you may find some details about it.\n\nIt took the USA only a few years to go from earth orbital flight to landing men on the moon.\n\nChina is already successful with people in orbit around the earth (recently).  So, if we suppose they take about the same time for working on their man-to-the-moon project, they should be there by 2016 or so.\n\nHowever, once one group has done something, it is usually easier for the next one.  So, the Chinese might be there by 2010.\n\nIf I had to take a guess, I would say 2012.\n\nI don't think they are rushing, they are very patient about things.  Rushing increase the dangers.\n\nThey may wish to do 'more' than just copying our previous visits.  In that case, 2012--2016 is still likely, but it will be later depending on what they are planning.\n\nThey may change their minds and send only remote-control devices.  But it is pretty sure they will do at least that.
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Well, you need to contact NASA to see if they have any clue.  It's definitely more than my small brain can count and my wide eyes can see.  \nAccording to NASA's website "there have been about 4000 launches (some with multiple payloads) and my guess is that several hundred of the satellites involved are still active. Nine individual countries have launched satellites (USA, Russia, Japan, China, France, India, Israel, Australia, UK) as well as international consortia (ESA, the European Space Agency, being the most important of those). A large number of countries have enough money and could easily acquire the technology to launch satellites, but choose for economy and convenience to either have another country launch their payloads or to participate in the space projects of other nations."
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"...was nasa lying about neil armstrong going to the moon?..."\n\nNo, definitely not. It's unbelievable how many people prefer to accept the half-baked, erroneous "proofs" that show men never landed on the moon to the undeniable scientific facts that prove we did. Take the time to read the facts on this non-governmental website ==> http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/tv/foxapollo.html\n\n"...the technology is much greater today than 1965, so why cant we go up there again?..."\n\nYes, our technology has greatly advanced since 1969, but at this time we simply don't have the necessary hardware to put men back on the moon---no Saturn-like boosters, no life-support systems required for manned lunar voyages, no lunar landing equipment, etc.,. It's true that we could build all the necessary equipment, but a number of factors discourage further manned lunar exploration--the space race is over, the American public has lost interest in the moon, and NASA's budget is far below the levels needed to ramp up again for manned lunar flights.
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There were six Moon landings. In the Apollo program, Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 landed on the Moon.
50505
There's the Man *in* the Moon, but not the Moon *in* the Earth.  So far, there is only one moon orbiting the Earth and its name is ... "Moon".