Do you think the United States will go back to the moon as planned in 2017?
461905
I really hope so there was a lot of things that came from the space program that people have forgotten. They were off shoots of the effort to make it to the moon. Computers, cell phones, medical equipment, very some thing that we use in our kitchen have roots in the space program some were failures that could not be use in the space program but found uses here on earth. We need to continue to have science for the sake of discovery. I think that it was in the 17 century that the government of either England are the US funded a project that had not use at the time. The research lead to the discovery of the electron. With out which you would not be reading this message. With space it will be either we do it our other will. The money that will come from space mission in the next 100 year will be greater than the US debt today.
871827
1) 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?
429374
some say that the apollo missions to the moon were fake so that america could win the space race. also because their is really no interset on the moon for us except moon rocks. we can study the craters from earth. NASA and other space researchers in the world are planning missions to mars, and unmanned space explorations of other planets.
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.
1183995
Fortunately, neither the US nor any other country possesses technology anywhere even close to sufficient to blow up something the size of the moon. If they did, they'd probably blow up Earth first.\n\nAlso, mining the moon for minerals would not be economically feasible, whether the moon is smashed to bits or not.
383183
The US stopped for a few reasons:\n-The war in Vietnam.  'nuff said\n-We started to worry about solar radiation.  If one of the moon missions was just one month later than it was the men on the moon would have recieved a leathal dose of radaition.  We did not really want to have corpses on the moon.\n\nThe Soviet Union never landed:\n-Their manned moon rocket never had a successfull lift-off\n-The main guy in thier space program died\n-Political reasons\n\nThe US has not been back:\n-Been focused on low earth manned-missions, and robotic exploration, it tends to be cheaper and safer\n-Space race over, hard to justfy politically.\n-Robotic exploration is improving, hard to justify scientifically.
1099347
Yes i do. The Moon Landing. I dont think it happened.
594203
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.
257305
It makes for a good tale, but yes, we did land on the moon. I have read all of the theories but WE WERE ON THE MOON!
1046656
The simple answer is no. However there are many companies that are selling titles to small parcels of land on the moon, and other planets. These are fun as a joke, just remember that you are making some guy rich off that joke.\n\nIn 1967 the United Nations put forward the The Outer Space Treaty which said that no government can make any territorial claims on any extraterrestrial entity. This was supposed to stop any governments from creating space empires or claiming things like the moon for one country.\n\nUnfortunately some people said that the treaty excluded private individuals, and so private companies and people COULD own property and planets. However in 1979, a new treaty was passed, that said all extraterrestrial resources are 'the common heritage of mankind'\n\nSo there you have it, sure you can "buy" a little certificate that says you own part of the moon, or mars or whatever. But in reality it is just for fun, and you don't really own anything.\n\nAnother thing to consider is that in the days of the "old west" in the USA people purchased land, but needed to visit the property at least twice in order to stake a claim to it.\n\nI don't think many people are going to be visiting their property on the moon for a very long time.
581310
Its not likely.\n\nIndeed, its unlikely that any nation will eclipse the United States any time soon.
402650
I do not believe we have gone to the moon.. \nThe reason for this, purely is that technology back in the 60s-70s was not capable of making it to the moon. \n\nHell even today to go to the moon would be tough.. Sure we could get there, but to land, do the things that they claim they did back then (play golf, place the flag in the ground etc) and then to get back in that tiny little space capsule and make it back all the way to earth with enough air is outrageous. Not to mention all the radiation they would of encountered passing through the asteroid belt. According to NASA I think I read they are going to attempt another man mission to the moon in 2018. Why that long? Because they still have lots of kinks to work out and would not be able to fake it this time.\n\nIf you do a google or yahoo search on this subject you will see countless of articles on why man has not gone to the moon.. Just my two cents.
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October 09, 2006\nit depends where you live when the moon will rise
658680
We could build prisons on the moon..for all the worlds worst,the 1st world prison,,or maybe mars,,doubt thered be many prisoners years after that ..somehow..ppl would behave themselves
711996
It would sure make some things a lot more clear, like you say, hovering over us and inspecting.  Also would explain how come we have no evidence to support it.\n\nIn the far distant future, there is no telling what advances might be, and for us to say it couldn't happen is ridiculous.\n\nIt hasn't been all that long ago that we managed to get our primitive rockets to blast off and put a man on the moon and bring him back.\n\nCertainly it would have been deemed a fantasy in 1800.  So who is to say what might happen 500 years from now.
237817
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.
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.