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We don't go to the moon now because there is no purpose in going there.

Back then we (a) wanted to show the world that we could beat the Russians and (b) do some science. The first purpose no longer exists and today it is cheaper and better to do science with unmanned robot spacecraft. In fact, the Apollo program was abruptly cancelled in the middle of it. Three great ships were already constructed when the program was scrapped, but the people no longer cared. You can go tour one of them at Cape Canaveral, lying on its belly like a dead whale. You can. I won't.

Apollo was the finest technical achievement of the American nation. 400,000 people, including me, had a part in it. We will never see its like again. I also predict, despite NASA's wishes to preserve 30,000 bureaucratic jobs, that we will never make a human landfall on Mars, for the same reasons.

After Apollo, NASA squandered its funds and reputation on the Shuttle, one of the worst designed engineering projects in history. It failed to meet any of its objectives. As it ended up, the only purpose of the Shuttle was to go to the ISS. The only purpose of the ISS was to provide a destination for the Shuttle.

Very little useful science has come from the ISS. 90% of everything we know about the universe has been discovered during my short lifetime, and none of it has come from the ISS.

The dune buggy was a bit much...Kubrick should've known better.

I ran into one this spring!
I went for a walk at a park and his dog came over to me and as I was petting the dog I got into a conversation with him and his friend.
Don't remember how we got on the subject but he informed me that the earth is flat and man has never left the earth so we have never been to the moon!
Telling me how it was all filmed in a warehouse in Hollywood
As he was telling me this I could see his friend glancing at him grinning like, here he goes again.
His friend was trying to keep a straight face and I got the impression this was nothing new to him.
Both young guys about 20yo.
I walked away just amazed at the stupidity.

What’s on the dark side of the moon?

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The dune buggy was a bit much...Kubrick should've known better.

Rocky Raab,,,,Anyone,, What’s on the dark side of the moon?

Heard the Chinese have been there.

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Are you under the impression that nobody was employed to design, build, and manage the space program? Because Apollo used parts and services from every state in the US, and every cent was spent right here on Earth.