we have no proof we actually went now, the biggest step for man kind was deleted LMAO
people questioned it and the reels went missing. Why should we go again? because we can, apparently LMAO
If we went 50 years ago, it should be easy as fuck now. Why haven't we gone back to the moon to study it and see how we can live in space, practice somewhere close. Instead of "sending people to MARS to live" with no practice lmao
Are you so self aware that you constantly type "lmao" after each comment of yours because you know people will be laughing at how unbelievably stupid you sound? I'm sure I'm giving you too much credit.
Going to space costs a lot of money. Going to the moon cost even more. It's also incredibly dangerous and the risks far outweigh the rewards. Even at the time,
Nixon actually had a eulogy prepared for Apollo 11.
We went to the moon the first time because of the Cold War and the "race to the moon" (space technology in general; there was a real belief that the Soviets would weaponize space if we didn't first) and we're fortunate enough to have had president adminstrations who wanted us to land on the moon (before anyone else (the Russians)), mainly in John F. Kennedy. What is difficult however is each Adminstration has their own goals for NASA so its in a constant state of change, which is terrible since these missions can often take longer than two presidential terms to put into fruition, not to mention funding plummeted since Kennedy:
Also just to be clear, Apollo 11 was the first manned mission to land on the Moon (1969) and there were six manned U.S. landings between 1969 and 1972. And numerous unmanned landings. Again, see the budget above as well on how this was possible.
We don't need to send man to the moon or planets when we can have robots do a better job (the Mars rovers for example have been on Mars far longer than man could and are more valuable, for example). Also we don't have to go to the moon in order to "know how to live in space," we accomplish that with the international space station. A few reasons why the ISS is better than the Moon for missions:
-Radiation. The Moon isn't protected by Earth's magnetic field so radiation exposure is a big risk. Radiation shielding is heavy. The ISS gets protection from the magnetosphere but not from the atmosphere, so the "astronauts still get 1 millisievert per day - 5x as much radiation as on jet aircraft and 365x as much as on the ground."
-Distance. If something goes wrong, earth is quite a long way away in that the Apollo missions took a few days to reach the moon and a few days to come back. If something goes wrong on the ISS, the astronauts can get into a Soyuz capsule and be on the ground in a few hours (it's only ~300km away from Earth). The distance for Mars is far greater (and they can only reduce this by launching when Mars' orbit is at it's closest to Earth, meaning there is only a small window of opportunity otherwise the distance is ridiculously far (The average distance between the two planets is 140 million miles)).
-Difficulty of landing on the Moon. A few probes have crashed attempting to do so (Luna 15 for example). It's not a very good track record when you consider humans would be involved. This will and likely is to get much better now that SpaceX, Armadillo, Blue Origin, et al are increasingly getting gud.
-Toxic moon dust. Although there are precautions, it was found in the lungs of Apollo astronauts. Likely could be avoidable in the future but it's just another danger and risk.
At the end of the day, there really isn't much of a purpose to send men to Mars. Not for NASA anyways (far better and more important things to spend the money on). I think Japan is planning on it within the next ten years or so however.
Private companies? Sure, I can see that happening not long from now. I'm sure they'll make it into a tourist location ( take a trip to the Moon and spend a few days in a luxury lunar-hotel, complete with amazing skyviews of earth in each private room.
It's too bad though that you don't believe/understand science; Japan had thousands of hours of HD video from the moon:
Earthrise (like a sunrise):
Here's over a hundred more:
HDTV of the lunar explorer "KAGUYA": [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2L9Jti9Z4&list=PLCQJJ3lTBuyCdlbfBzNn8vbC1BL2uZXp0[/ame]
But I'm sure the Japanese are "in on it" too