The astronauts who went there left their poop there. We could get funding to explore an unknown celestial object that has fascinated us for as long as we could look up. It’s more difficult to find the funds to go to a toilet.
Humans are a giant hassle in space exploration. You need to keep them alive, and you have to bring them back. Both things are crazy expensive.
It’s especially not really worth it to send people to the moon, which is super close and kinda boring. We’ve had a VERY good, close up view for centuries, and we can operate robots there in real time. Robots are way easier on the moon, and frankly we got the moon’s gist already.
Now, of course a human is more versatile than a robot. A human science team on Mars, say, could do WAAAAAY more science than the robots we sent. But we just don’t have the tech right now to get them there. A lot of our manned space missions right now are really about building that capacity.
It’s cheaper and easier to send robots to the moon, as then you don’t need to consider oxygen, food, water, waste and everything else humans add to the mix.
You missed the part about the Artemis missions April in a year that NASA is building a base on the moon in preparation for the trip to Mars in the 2030s
So the answer is that they are going back to the moon
We already sent humans to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s. They explored it a bit, took some samples and came back. There really is no reason to do it again. Why should we go back to the Moon? To built a Moon base? That would be expensive and almost impossible. Life is not a science fiction movie.
First we went to the moon a lot. Six times over the course of Apollo, and we did a lot of science.
NASA’s budget gets cut religiously
We forgot how.
That last one is important. Due to not flying to the moon for decades the people who had worked on Apollo, simply died. And we lost a ton of instructional knowledge. NASA is working on returning via the Artimes program which seeks to establish a base on the moon, similar to the Space Station. Part of that program was literally re-learning parts of Apollo that we lost.
Artimes 1 flew unmanned to the moon and back in 2022.
Artimes 2 is set to fly in 2026, it will be crewed, and it will get close but not land on the moon.
Artimes 3 in 2027 will be our first maned return to the moon since Apollo 1972. 55 years later.
Its been fifty years since we went to the moon, and we can do much more now then we could in the 70s. Using the moon as a base for future space exploration is a major point of interest.
1 nothing there.
2 it’s been said the space race was a pissing contest showing how America has the might to launch nuclear weapons anywhere I the world, if we could get a rocket close to the moon.
They have. Plenty of times. There are 12 individuals who have physically walked on the moon and there have been countless others that orbited. I guess the reason we haven’t kept going there is because we’ve pretty much seen all there is to see there which isn’t a lot.
The U.S. began going into debt after the Moon landing. It was a goal of the Kennedy administration when the Russians beat the Americans into space. Unfortunately there has been no profit made from the actual moon landings it self. The space program paid off in trillions in profit from Satellites as even this phone message and the internet uses them. The space program introduced the world to thousands of products that we use. From computers, digital technology, weather patterns, GPS and hundreds of smaller tools. If we could find a way to profit from the moon, there would be a dozen or so countries stationed there.
The ISS is about 250 miles up, whereas the moon is 1,000 times as far (~250,000miles).
The difference of walking 1km to the store or driving 621 miles.
They destroyed everything. Not because they just don’t wanna or don’t have the money or they’re afraid of killing hoomans. It’s because they CLAIM all of the data to go back was destroyed and it’s been a painstaking task to rebuild it.
(Foil, landscape fabric and cardboard is hard to come by)
As a space nerd, this pains me to say, but there’s not a lot of reasons to do it, and a lot of reasons to not do it. Human spaceflight and space exploration is awesome, but right now unmanned missions can do a lot more for a lot less, all without putting astronauts at risk.
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Really expensive. Need a very good reason to put a dude up there and not a robot
Not much benefit or we can send robots, that is until we’re able to send a long-term habitation.
Been there done that
Money
The astronauts who went there left their poop there. We could get funding to explore an unknown celestial object that has fascinated us for as long as we could look up. It’s more difficult to find the funds to go to a toilet.
Send me , I’m over the shithole of a planet the way things have been going this year
The reward isn’t worth the risk/cost of doing it again right now. The first time was just about cucking the Soviets.
Well, when have we even flown to the moon recently to be able to be back there?
Humans are a giant hassle in space exploration. You need to keep them alive, and you have to bring them back. Both things are crazy expensive.
It’s especially not really worth it to send people to the moon, which is super close and kinda boring. We’ve had a VERY good, close up view for centuries, and we can operate robots there in real time. Robots are way easier on the moon, and frankly we got the moon’s gist already.
Now, of course a human is more versatile than a robot. A human science team on Mars, say, could do WAAAAAY more science than the robots we sent. But we just don’t have the tech right now to get them there. A lot of our manned space missions right now are really about building that capacity.
Fill in the blank: humans should go back to the moon because _____
The public lost interest in it and it was an expensive/dangerous mission. They’ll need a grander plan, like a moon base, to make it a regular thing.
There’s not actually any cheese so what’s the point
It’s kinda far
Not really a reason for humans to go.
It’s cheaper and easier to send robots to the moon, as then you don’t need to consider oxygen, food, water, waste and everything else humans add to the mix.
It’s a really expensive expedition and politicians don’t see enough return on the investment to fund another one.
Why go back?
The Artemis program aims to do that
It’s outrageously expensive for starters
You missed the part about the Artemis missions April in a year that NASA is building a base on the moon in preparation for the trip to Mars in the 2030s
So the answer is that they are going back to the moon
We already sent humans to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s. They explored it a bit, took some samples and came back. There really is no reason to do it again. Why should we go back to the Moon? To built a Moon base? That would be expensive and almost impossible. Life is not a science fiction movie.
There was a race the first time – there’s no need now. Too expensive.
We are going back in 2 years! Hopefully!
A few reasons.
That last one is important. Due to not flying to the moon for decades the people who had worked on Apollo, simply died. And we lost a ton of instructional knowledge. NASA is working on returning via the Artimes program which seeks to establish a base on the moon, similar to the Space Station. Part of that program was literally re-learning parts of Apollo that we lost.
Artimes 1 flew unmanned to the moon and back in 2022.
Artimes 2 is set to fly in 2026, it will be crewed, and it will get close but not land on the moon.
Artimes 3 in 2027 will be our first maned return to the moon since Apollo 1972. 55 years later.
Its been fifty years since we went to the moon, and we can do much more now then we could in the 70s. Using the moon as a base for future space exploration is a major point of interest.
We weren’t invited
It doesn’t make money.
It’s expensive and there’s nothing there.
Because of what they awoke the last time
1 nothing there.
2 it’s been said the space race was a pissing contest showing how America has the might to launch nuclear weapons anywhere I the world, if we could get a rocket close to the moon.
No one wants to pay for it.
Because there’s nothing there.
No funding. Also NASA wasted a ton of money on the space shuttle and ended up spinning their wheels in low Earth orbit for over 30 years.
Too tired
Wow. My brain just read this as ‘why haven’t humans seen the back of the moon?’ And I glitched for a second.
They have. Plenty of times. There are 12 individuals who have physically walked on the moon and there have been countless others that orbited. I guess the reason we haven’t kept going there is because we’ve pretty much seen all there is to see there which isn’t a lot.
The U.S. began going into debt after the Moon landing. It was a goal of the Kennedy administration when the Russians beat the Americans into space. Unfortunately there has been no profit made from the actual moon landings it self. The space program paid off in trillions in profit from Satellites as even this phone message and the internet uses them. The space program introduced the world to thousands of products that we use. From computers, digital technology, weather patterns, GPS and hundreds of smaller tools. If we could find a way to profit from the moon, there would be a dozen or so countries stationed there.
What would be the point when robots and orbiters are cheaper, safer, and can provide more and better info?
Placing humans on the moon was only ever a political stunt, anyway.
Moon’s haunted.
Astronaut Don Pettit said it’s because NASA lost the technology. 😆 🙄
The ISS is about 250 miles up, whereas the moon is 1,000 times as far (~250,000miles).
The difference of walking 1km to the store or driving 621 miles.
“Do you get to the lunar district often? Oh, what am I saying? Of course you don’t.”
They destroyed everything. Not because they just don’t wanna or don’t have the money or they’re afraid of killing hoomans. It’s because they CLAIM all of the data to go back was destroyed and it’s been a painstaking task to rebuild it.
(Foil, landscape fabric and cardboard is hard to come by)
No cheese
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z2LMcRQGL7k&pp=ygUgbm8gY2hlZXNlIG9uIHRoZSBtb29uIGNvbW1lcmNpYWw%3D
Back…? HA!
Moon’s haunted.
It’s someone else’s turn.
As a space nerd, this pains me to say, but there’s not a lot of reasons to do it, and a lot of reasons to not do it. Human spaceflight and space exploration is awesome, but right now unmanned missions can do a lot more for a lot less, all without putting astronauts at risk.
“We lost the technology” – direct quote. Don Pennent (sp?) easy to find on YouTube
If you understand why we went to the moon you’ll understand why we haven’t been back.
We went 6 times. At some point the return on investment isn’t there anymore.
I’m sure private folks will be there sooner or later then we can stop having this conversation 3 times a week.
They have made multiple trips.
Been there, done that. Plus the set burned down in the tragic 1978 wildfires
Because we’ve already been there done that. The only interesting thing left to do is blow up the moon
It’s hard as fuck and all the people who knew how to do it died