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

[SleepingTitan]

13 minutes ago, Starkiller said:

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. 

what resources?

[Starkiller]

28 minutes ago, SleepingTitan said:

what resources?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources

[SleepingTitan]

2 hours ago, Starkiller said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_resources

That doesn't sound like a lot

[Starkiller]

15 minutes ago, SleepingTitan said:

That doesn't sound like a lot

It’s something. The moon is pretty big and there are lots of natural resources even if it’s a barren wasteland. It’s also worth pointing out that if we start mining asteroids for materials, which would produce significant resources, it would largely need to be processed either in space or on the moon. This adds significant strategic value to having a moon base.
 

And building ships in space using those off-world resources would be infinitely more efficient than it is to build them here and require massive energy output to get them into orbit. Launching from the moon requires a fraction of the energy that it takes to launch from Earth.

[NashvilleNinja]

Watch us start mining on the moon and fuck it up somehow and knock it off its orbit and cause ginormous continent-wiping tsunamis.

 

"See? Shoulda just stayed put, morons!"