We went to the moon more than 30 years ago, isn't it about time we went back?
395742
Now that robotics have advanced it's safer to send unmaned vehicles.  However, get together a few billion dollars and people will get you there!
992501
Yes. Man landed on the moon. Man has flown in space ships and lived in habitats in space. There was also an effort to irradicate Jewish people, it was the Halocaust. This is all part of History. No pseudo-intellectuals can change that no matter how hard they try. People should put their efforts into making the present and future better instead of making up lies about the past.
645192
No, there's nothing really to see on the moon, and the environment is a bit harsh to do much of anything without a spacesuit.\n\nMaybe in a few hundred years, we will have more advanced technology that lets us visit other places more easily.
855641
a long time ago, when the moon wasnt so big
69734
No they have not. The USSR had 3 programs to explore the moon, L-1, L-3 and Luna, and they were scaled back when it was realized that the Americans would beat them. They had planned a landing for 1968 when some disasterous setbacks made them realize it was not going to be possible. The Americans of course landed in 1969.
22844
Yes. First lunar landing was in July, 1969. \nCheck NASA website and google for landing on moon.
455854
Yes, the moon is moving away at a rate of 3.8 centimetres per year. This was discovered by lunar laser ranging. Don't worry though, it's practically nothing.
474141
It's expensive.  But now going back to the moon is seen as preparation for going to Mars.  The technology used to go to the moon now will work out the bugs in the equipment that will be used to go to Mars.  Strangely, we are just redesigning some of the stuff that was used in the Apollo missions, basically the same capsule design updated with the latest electronics.  Why, because it worked, there is no need to reinvent the wheel when you have something that works, stick with it.
477
Yes. I believe the original idea was to build a rocket base from which to explore the solar system. But somebody realised the same thing could be done from Earth via an orbiting space station for a fraction of the cost.\nThe only other reasons for going to the moon were - \n1. To stop the Russians setting up a military base there.\n2. To collect moon rocks.\nWhen the US realised that a Russian moon base wasn't practical, and they had souvenired as many moon rocks as they were ever likely to need, they never bothered to go back.
1002820
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.
651858
It's really too bad, but we probably passed up the chance.  Werner Von Braun had an idea that called for the third stage of the Saturn V rocket to be lowered to the surface of the Moon and buried under the regolith.  The first astronauts to land on the Moon would spend about six months there setting up house.  Then the next set of Apollo astronauts would come with another section and the first set of astronauts would go home.  From that point forward, we would always have a manned presence on the Moon.\n\nThe problem was that we weren't ready in 1969.  The Apollo 12 mission in December of '69 was supposed to be the first to land on the Moon, but NASA thought we were ready early and moved the landing up to Apollo 11.  The Moon Lab project wouldn't be ready until 1972.  And Kennedy had said we would go to the Moon "before this decade was out."  If he had been alive, he probably could have given us permission to do the Moon landing right, but he was dead, and we couldn't walk away from what he wanted for us.\n\nAnyway, I highly recommend Ben Bova's wonderful book Welcome to Moonbase as a source for what living on the Moon would be like.  Heinlein's The Menace from Earth and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress are also excellent.
428930
NASA plans to send astronauts to the moon by 2020.  NASA sent nine manned missions to the Moon between 1968 and 1972. A total of 12 men walked on the lunar surface.  If you ask me, I'm not sure if they have ever been up there to begin with.  They say it takes them so long now to get "back" because the project would cost over 100 Billion Dollars. The new missions would use rocket technology already employed on the space shuttle to cut the costs of development. Dr Griffin from NASA said the new rockets would be "very Apollo-like, with updated technology. Think of it as Apollo on steroids."
155869
The moon is approx. 4.5 billion years old. It is believed to have been formed when a planet the size of Mars smashed into the Earth. Most of the debris fell back to Earth. Some of it stayed in orbit and formed the moon.\n\nInterestingly - the moon may have formed in a few thousand years. During that time, Earth would have been a ringed planet.
392838
We went to the moon. The simplest answer is usually the correct one, and in this case it's easier to assume that we really went to the moon than there being an international conspiracy involving every nation on Earth lying to say that we never made it to the moon.
172697
Beginning in the 1970's, Hartmann and many others theorized and offered "proof" that our moon was formed billions of years ago when a planetesimal about the size of Mars impacted Earth. Today, this theory is almost totally accepted.
1116878
"...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.
78971
they didn't 1969. Sure think about it - how could they have? It was just a conspiricy to show up russians because they had got a man in space. That was the great thing that happened. The first real person on the moon was not until 1974.