Should the US go back to the moon?
88456
Sure why not? heck China is planning a Moon landing itself so I think America needs to start heading back up to the Moon before China does.\n\nNot to mention if we wanna get to Mars then we might wanna start building a station on the Moon so that we can accomplish our goal of getting to Mars.
229290
Sounds to be a good a theory as any other...to say no..would mean closing doors to limitless possibilities..\nI do find it strange that suddenly the United States and China both want to go to the dark side of the moon..They never wanted to before..Is there a connection there too?...ya just never know..\nPerhaps ..very soon we ALL we learn the truth about life and the universe..Just don't expect to hear it from the government.
900326
America did not land on the Moon. We payed billions of dollars for the 360 foot Saturn 5 rocket so we could look at it and say wow that is a big rocket. We kept approx. 400,000 technicians, scientists and construction contractors quiet, with zero leaks to the public. The rocks that we thought that came from moon and have proved to be from the moon are really from the Pacific Ocean. \n\nOther Conspiracies to think about: \n\n1. The Jews did not suffer in Germany because there was no Holocaust. Actually it was the Jews that was torturing the poor blond haired deprived Germans. Those tattoos on the Jews arms and hands that are still alive today (by the grace of God) are really there because they want to be hip. \n\n2. We knew the Japanese were going to bomb Pearl Harbor before they did. I mean come-on President Roosevelt liked the thought of our boys baking inside the Battle Ship Arizona before they died. The President was looking for a better way to get a good nights sleep. \n\n3. 9/11 conspiracy: the number of people it would've taken to pull off the largest mass murder in US history could fill one of the towers. Do you think the present administration is competent enough to pull off the largest scam in history? The Watergate and Enron capers were known by a handful of people and the secrets were leaked. So how did the 9/11 keep thousands of people's lips sealed?\n\n4. The Mafia whacked JFK, via the Russian connection, via the Cuban connection. The man on the grassy knoll was a CIA agent acting on orders from Marcello of New Orleans with complicity of the then Boss of Boss Giancana in Chicago. Ruby whacked Oswald to seal the path to the Mafia, he was a two-bit night club owner in Marcello's outfit...true story.\n\n5. Aliens landed in Roswell and we transported them to Area 51 to back engineer their technology, where do you think the stealth air craft came from? Again, we kept it secret by brain washing the thousands of workers who were in on the scam. \n\n6. The Moon we see every night is really not there along with the planets and stars as well the Planet Killing Asteroids. Those were put there by the evil United States to toy with our minds. \n\n7. Fossils of early homosapiens, homoerectus and earlier models were put their by evil paleontologists, athropoligists, and assorted rock hounds looking to enhance their careers, Creation is the real objective reality. \n\n8. America is a conspiracy and is a fake country and none of us Americans really live here. \n\n9. I was never born so this response to your question is a fake.
545080
I'm going to make the (probably correct) assumption that you're talking about the US manned missions to the moon. We have gone to the moon and people who think we haven't are just very paranoid and naive. People who attempt to convince others that we didn't rely on people's ignorance and mistrust of the US and it's government. What they mainly do is present a lot of situations that you and I can readily test here on Earth that is "proof" that we didn't go to the moon. The problem is that things don't exactly work the same way in a low-gravity, zero-atmosphere, moon. The usual arguments and their debunkings can be found at a lot of sites but i particularly like this one:\n\nhttp://www.badastronomy.com\n\nOne of my personal favorite reasons why it probably wasn't a hoax was becaues of the Soviet Union. The Soviets had satellites, lots of satellites. They also had lots of observatories and lots of spys in the US government. If it was a hoax, they would have easily caught us and had proof. The spacecraft would have had to orbit earth while the "hoax" played out and the Soviets would have easily caught it. \n\nBut theres no convincing some people.
250375
Deffinitely, we need something from the space program to be PROUD of again.  Since we lost Russian competition, we've squandered our time in space.  I say it's time to do these things, not because they're easy, but because they're hard!
219500
Get a high powered telescope and take a gander at the moon, and see if you can actually see old glory planted in the dirt.  Yes we landed on the moon.
619943
Why Not?\nBecause we can.\nBecause the moon is more interesting than tv.\nLife is about challenge,\nThought is about questions.\nBecause Neil Armstrong woke up one morning put his Nikes on and just did it.
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A remote control camera was mounted on the leg of the lunar lander on each of the six moon landings.\n\n1) 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?
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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.
423179
i think that it is very important in a modern society like ours who might one day venture into the unknown reaches of space to be fully aware of our space surroundings. the moon does look pretty promising for a colony.
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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.
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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.
261940
Probably the biggest problem facing us right now is solar radiation.  In earth orbit you are fine, the magenetic field of the earth protects us.  Going to the Moon is a bit riskier, as you are outside the field for a bit of time.  If the sun is a bit crany while you going to the moon, well you are dead.\n\nThat pales into comparison to really going places.  If you want to go to Mars you will definately need to solve this problem.  The Moon missions were short enough that the odds were good for nothing happening, the Mars trips are so long that the sun will definately send some high eneregy radiation your way.
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I'd like to a base on the moon, where we can launch our craft to explore Mars.\n\nBut I do not think it will happen in my lifetime.
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!
1162676
do you live in the USA? well i think that we should take care of our own first unlike what we currently do! we need to stop spending billions upon billions of American dollars over seas and our space projects and take care of home first ..... then worry about everything else..... the USA should not have a homless population muchless starving familes!
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WHY HAV'NT WE SEEN MOONWALKS EVEN NOWADAYS IF THEY DID IT BACK IN 69 WHY IS'NT NASA PUTTIN PPL ON THE MOON RIGHT NOW