forgive my ignorance on this but if the moon is unimportant or whatever and has no purpose for humanity
does that not also run true for the international space station?

i mean how many billions has it cost to build that and how many billions does it cost to maintain it?

hopefully my questions aint too ignorant but im new to all this and would like an insight into it

Originally posted by The Old American
The race to the moon was based on power. Whoever had the power to reach the moon, also had the power on Earth. Firepower, economic power, scientific power. Until now, there was no reason to go back, as we had proven ourselves to be top dog in the space race. But water is getting scarce on Earth now, and there are signs of millions of gallons of water on the moon. We may go back for that, but otherwise, it's pointless.

Destination: Mars!

/TOA

desalination certainly must be more fuel, energy, and cost efficient that flying water down from the moon.

Some of you guys are a piece of work.

Did it ever dawn on any of you (likely not) that the program went black after the last mission and was likely transferred to the Air Force?

The military would not give up an opportunity like that one once it was demonstrated that we could go up there quite frequently and with quite some ease once all the major problems had been solved, especially considering the challenge that was overcome.

Cost, cost, cost... who cares.... if you believe all the other conspiracies on here about the other way the military makes its money, there is more than enough cash to have a really sweet space program.

NASA doesn't go there, because you're right, it's been told not too. They weren't told by aliens, but by their bosses at the Pentagon.

Next you'll be dismissing it because of where would they launch it, because no one has reported such a big rocket taking off and quite often. Well no one really saw all those hydrogen bombs being detonated in the Pacific did they? Who's to say they don't have a really nice Saturn 5 sized launch facility on some remote island somewhere in the Pacific?

Or, who's to say they haven't built an orbiting platform to build a larger craft, that can hold more supplies and men, for going to the moon? They could have used more economical rockets to stock it with stuff, than build one giant rocket that probably would never get off of the ground.

A lot of you guys are thinking small or not thinking at all.

i heard that the reason we never returned was because there were two alien races fighting for the moon for ages and they attacked the astronauts that had landed so that's my two cents in that i mean why else will would there be so many craters in the moon? thats just my dumb theory though

It is said that NASA never returned to the moon because it is full of extraterrestial bases, and they were warned not to.

Originally posted by Aquarius1011
It is said that NASA never returned to the moon because it is full of extraterrestial bases, and they were warned not to.

The people that said that origionally are stupid. Pure and simple.

Quit reading those news papers that sit next to the candy at the checkout.