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yeah but they are spending how many more billions on mars at this moment when surely its cheaper to send humans back to the moon?i bet there is alot more surprises to be found on the moon than we think
Originally posted by Tiger5
Sorry but I cannot find the programme to post a link.
However to reply to your OP manned space flight is too expensive and did not make economic sense when information can be gathered in a cheaper fashion using unmanned flights. Sorry but that is the Dollars and cents reasoning.
Manned space flight was necessary at the time of the Cold war to show american supremacy as was the space race.
they thought everything was dead but things keep amazing them like enceladus
Originally posted by Knives4eyes
reply to post by sparky31
The moon is a dead planet, they tested samples from launching a weapon into the surface and measured the plume for elements. Not much was to be found, unless you're looking for a steady source of selenium.
yeah and to me this massive jump in technology has to make you question where has it come from all of a sudden.
Originally posted by FinalCountdown
We are not allowed to go to the moon.
They won't let us.
We were never supposed to gain the technology to leave this planet.
Things have started to escalate since the 40's when the plans were first laid down for leaving the atmosphere .
Originally posted by Knives4eyes
reply to post by sparky31
The moon is a dead planet, they tested samples from launching a weapon into the surface and measured the plume for elements. Not much was to be found, unless you're looking for a steady source of selenium.
yeah we know they believe that about mars but they also believe life was brought to earth by meteors and comets and you only have to look at moon to know its been bombarded.we still don,t know anything about how life starts or manages to live in extremes conditions.
Originally posted by eManym
Two reasons:
1. Funding shifted to the Space Shuttle program
2. The Moon had no value to the military.
Today, the reason funds are going to explore Mars is because the prospect of possible life there is being heavily lobbied.edit on 17-7-2013 by eManym because: (no reason given)
...the networks came on at 11:30 pm with their second, and final coverage of the first EVA. This time slot was selected not due to the lunar surface activity itself, but rather it was scheduled to not interfere with local news in the Eastern time zone.
...of the full seven hours and 30 minutes of EVA number two, less than 50 minutes were broadcast live on the networks.
I went to bed that night highly disappointed and somewhat bewildered by the manner in which the so-called “newsrooms” were treating this amazing adventure.
It is said that the first greatest power of the news media is to report- but the second greatest power of the news media is to ignore. With Apollo 17 I witnessed that second greatest power being demonstrated.
Originally posted by sparky31
yeah but they are spending how many more billions on mars at this moment when surely its cheaper to send humans back to the moon?i bet there is alot more surprises to be found on the moon than we think
Originally posted by Tiger5
Sorry but I cannot find the programme to post a link.
However to reply to your OP manned space flight is too expensive and did not make economic sense when information can be gathered in a cheaper fashion using unmanned flights. Sorry but that is the Dollars and cents reasoning.
Manned space flight was necessary at the time of the Cold war to show american supremacy as was the space race.
come on what they believed about moons round other planets have all been rewritten in last few years so why not go back and study our own?edit on 2013 by sparky31 because: (no reason given)