Since humans went to the moon in the '60s, why is it taking us so long to get back? 2020? Don't we already have the technology?
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Sort of. Believe it or not, most of the plans for the original Saturn V lift vehicle (rocket) have been lost. This is mainly because the individual pieces were contracted out to many different companies, and many of those companies have since gone out of business. There is some reverse-engineering being done of the technology that was developed in the 60's trying to learn as much as they can for the new systems. Engineers are scouring space equipment junkyards to find this old equipment and analyze it.
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I read recently that there were no plans to go the moon again. Been there, done that. I think one of the planets will be next.
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I guess we have the technology. Why would we want to go back?
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Man never went to the moon. I saw a show about it on Fox. It was all a hoax, guaranteed. Think about it, or watch the show, it`s impossible.
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Because there is no Oil on the moon!
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There is also a budget problem ... just getting off the Earth and into orbit is expensive enough, but return trips to land on and relaunch from the moon are quite costly ... expect a lot of robots to make one way trips, so they can do preparation work first, then expect a lot of one way cargo drops to get needed supplies there before they bother to send more actual humans ... even more so for Mars missions.
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Ah, sorry to tell you but they are on the moon. Its mobile, so it stays on the darkside. ships are always seen flying there. Why wont they tell us? Because we dont need to know why they are there.
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Actually there is something on the moon that is probably the future of mankind. hydrogen3 It's needed for fusion reactors. We use fission reactors now, when we can make fusion reactors all of our energy problems will be solved. So we really should go there as soon as possible. But we spent all that money in Iraq, OH WELL!!!
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NASA's master risk assessment for the safe return of all three Apollo 11 Astronauts gave odds of 10-1 against safe return, that sort of risk is no longer acceptable, plus with the embarrasment factor of losing men now when it was done without incident so long ago and with the cost involved (circa $500 Billion) it is taking a bit of time. No sooner than 2018 they reckon!
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And what about the Russians, the Germans, the Chinese, the Japanese, the French, the English, the Dutch, etc. What's with the stagnation from all these countries with all their knowledge and experience and the potential gain by setting up stations there... Since the sixties computing power, material technology, fuel technology, communication and, well, all that, has one through the roof. What's the hold up? If they can all work together to get an international space station going, why not an international moon base?
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been there done that attitude for govts. private enterprise doesnt see the return on investment yet
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