it is not in man kinds nature to go some where and not go back. if that were the case, colombus would never have come back to the americas. for his time and technology, it was just as expensive and dangerous as going to the moon. he found an island atoll. not much there. yet he went back again and again and found bigger and better things to take back.

we have bases in antartica. not much there but a lot of ice and dancing penguins! costs alot to have people there, yet, there we are. people climb mt. everest time and again even though there is nothing up there. a barren peak.

our government would have gone back there, if for nothing else, national pride. lord it over the russians for pete's sake."hey, look what we can do! you guys can not do it! ha ha!" heck, with the shuttles, we could build a rocket in orbit. launch from there would be a lot easier and less expensive. we were only up there for a short amount of time. who knows what we could have found if we stayed?

us not going back to the moon never made sense to me at all.

The book "Leap of Faith" by Col. Gordon Cooper debunks a lot of what the astronauts are reportedly to have said. He writes about who saw what and where. No one on the moon saw any aliens or space craft (other than their own). It is interesting because Col. Gordon writes about his own UFO sightings and friends who told him of alien crashes. It is a fascinating book and is a must read for both believers and non-believers of UFOs.
We did not return to the moon for two big reasons:
1. Budget cuts
2. The public was bored with the missions.

Originally posted by kidflash2008

2. The public was bored with the missions.

Who all is bored with the space station missions? I sure am!

i do understand about vietnam. the moon missions, by comparison, were a drop as compared to the war budget. keck, most of the missions were conducted during the war. the last one was 1975 (?). the was had wound down by then. that was when the last copter took off from that building. there would have been more funds released for the space program with the ending of the war. yet they stopped just at that moment.

Originally posted by xweaponx
Apollo 11: Roger, we're here, all three of us. But we have found some visitors..... They've been here for quite a while judging by the installations.... I'm telling you there are other spacecraft out there. They're lined up in ranks on the far side of the crater's edge.....

Which "three of us" are they referring to? Please don't tell me that it was the three astronauts of Apollo 11 on the moon.

IMO, we stopped going to the moon because we accomplished our primary objective (beat the Russians) and the American people were no longer willing to support the costs.

Now, if we could come up with some commerically viable options for the moon we could get public support for returning there.

Originally posted by blackthorne
it is not in man kinds nature to go some where and not go back. if that were the case, colombus would never have come back to the americas. for his time and technology, it was just as expensive and dangerous as going to the moon. he found an island atoll. not much there. yet he went back again and again and found bigger and better things to take back.

You are just being sarcastic, right? The part about it being just as expensive and dangerous?

I really don't think 3 ships and 3 crews could compare with NASA and the space program. Of course, I don't know what inflation was over 500 years

Also, the dangerous part...I understand he was sailing mostly uncharted waters, but he did have numerous men around him, a nice long supply of oxygen, the sun shining and wind blowing. True, he COULD have gotten stranded, but nothing like astronauts.

As far as payback.. The payback from discovering the West was enormous and almost immediate. Land, Spices, Metals, Plants. Sure, those were not guaranteed at the outset, but even if we could mine the moon, how long until the profit is seen? If we could put a listening post on the moon, hoping to catch aliens passing by, how long until we benefit?

Relax folks, the only base on the Moon is MoonBase Alpha, and Commander Koenig is probably pulling our collective legs !!

Seriously though although i joked just now, i do think there is probably a secret base on the moon installed by the military for whatever purpose they deem fit. Maybe even a last outpost in the event of God forbid a nuclear war and the Moon would serve as an ideal base to store supplies and stuff and start the Human Race again on the Moon. Wprth considering dont you think?

I would bet my life that we're being observed from the moon by beings of extratrestial origin.

^^^ You know what... i always been thinking the same thing. Like that saying that "God is watching all of us." Hmmmmm think about it. We must have been some kinda experiment that exceeded the E.T.s limitations But thats is the E.Ts created us. But, thats "IF" they did. I was just saying.

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Originally posted by Nohup

Originally posted by xweaponx
Did something they aren't telling us actually go down on the moon?

There's no money in it. That's why we haven't gone back. The scientific knowledge gained from manned lunar exploration was determined by most of the American people to be not worth the cost of continued activity there. Going to the Moon is very, very expensive for just a few rocks. We were willing to do it to beat the Russians there during the Cold War, but that's not an issue any more.

Maybe someday we'll go back there to mine some Helium-3, but by that time we might find and easier way to get it, or manufacture it, or to do fusion research without it.

The most obvious use for the Moon right now is radioastronomy. Putting several huge radio telescopes in craters on lunar farside, shielded from most of the radio noise of Earth, would probably allow us to find any alien signals that might be floating around out there. And the construction could be done by little, web-spinning robots pretty cheaply, too.

We'll make it back to the Moon eventually, but we need a really good reason to do it.

[edit on 25-6-2008 by Nohup]

no money in it? what a load of crap this reason is.

im no genius but if you evolution fanatics want to find something about how the universe was created you would think the moon was the first place they would look and this is only one reason to go back.

35 years since the last moon landing and technology was at its begening now technology has shot off you would think they would go back and observe the moon properly.

and i mean not collect a few rocks but go there and collect data in detail.

I would like to know why it has been reported by all major media that NASA has lost its info on how the past missions went to the moon. That NASA forgot how to go to the moon.