Americans put humans on the moon in 1969, why haven’t other countries landed with humans since?

[Tnasty]

Watching space movies, don’t judge me 

[Starkiller]

Because now we can send robots instead. That tech didn’t exist in the era of the Apollo missions. 

[Jamalisms]

Aliens, obviously

[titanruss]

The moon doesnt actually exist, its just a projection. Similar to when you "fly" you arent actually flying. The windows are screens.

[OilerTitanHybrid]

Imagine, if you will...

 

 

 

[Downtown]

It just costs too much for little in return.

 

The public was down to spend the equivalent of 44billion USD back in those days for all the assembled missions that finally got us to the moon. Now remember it was Apollo 11 that actually got the crew there. We got samples, tests, etc. Why go back?

 

What is the purpose of sending a person back to the moon when the total estimated moderns costs of tests and the actual flight would end up being 12-16 billion just to get there again? 

[Starkiller]

4 hours ago, OilerTitanHybrid said:

Imagine, if you will...

 

 

 

The man in the plane? Captain Kirk…

[Starkiller]

4 hours ago, Downtown said:

It just costs too much for little in return.

 

The public was down to spend the equivalent of 44billion USD back in those days for all the assembled missions that finally got us to the moon. Now remember it was Apollo 11 that actually got the crew there. We got samples, tests, etc. Why go back?

 

What is the purpose of sending a person back to the moon when the total estimated moderns costs of tests and the actual flight would end up being 12-16 billion just to get there again? 

Probably the strategic value of developing a moon base

[OilerTitanHybrid]

8 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

The man in the plane? Captain Kirk…

Shatman!

[Somedude]

Too cold. Makes your penis shrink.

[Starkiller]

4 hours ago, Somedude said:

Too cold. Makes your penis shrink.

“I was on the moon!”

[NashvilleNinja]

On 5/24/2024 at 2:44 PM, Starkiller said:

Probably the strategic value of developing a moon base

 

I have no idea how much something like that would cost, but I'm assuming a conservative estimate of at least a trillion or 2. Maybe I'm overshooting, but I'm also trying to account for inflation.

[SleepingTitan]

The moon is a desert that gets up to 250 degrees in the day and -250 degrees at night -- with no resources. Why tf would we want to go there? 

[9 Nines]

The cords. 

 

[Starkiller]

49 minutes ago, SleepingTitan said:

The moon is a desert that gets up to 250 degrees in the day and -250 degrees at night -- with no resources. Why tf would we want to go there? 

There are absolutely resources there, but the long term value is largely in being a better base of operations if they want to launch missions from Earth to Mars or anywhere else beyond. It just isn’t self-sustaining on its own.