Need your Feedback:Why haven't we spacewalked on the moon since the 60's?

[franknitty711]

How is this possible with the advancement in technology?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

a- its not worth it, why spend the money that we barely have or don't, in order to just look around
b- we are spacewalking and keeping it covert
c- we never spacewalked in the first place

take your pick

 

[Sulu]

a- its not worth it, why spend the money that we barely have or don't, in order to just look around
b- we are spacewalking and keeping it covert
c- we never spacewalked in the first place

take your pick

so weve been there "once" notice the "'s yet its not worth it to go back?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

so weve been there "once" notice the "'s yet its not worth it to go back?

the cold war and space race dictated the environment for which it was necessary, that competitive environment no longer exists, or is at least dormant until nations have capability to make it habitable, which won't happen until countries or private parties can better utilize anti-gravity, have enough food supplies or artificial food tech, and have an abundance in wealth in order to make it happen.

it seems as though we are satisfied with satellites and robots doing the recon for the time being anyway, why risk more human life unless there is a serious operation of development going on there rather than mere observation..they would rather recon and observe mars and other planets/galaxies in addition to that.

 

[franknitty711]

so weve been there "once" notice the "'s yet its not worth it to go back?

Furthermore, if we were in such a "race" with the Soviets why have they not done it?

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Furthermore, if we were in such a "race" with the Soviets why have they not done it?

because the usa did it first so they decided to work on a space station instead.

russians have been space-walking for years, but haven't bothered with the moon, or at least have kept that secret since i believe '74 when they officially cancelled plans to moon walk.

their main program for moonwalking featured the n-1 rocket, which exploded on 4 test runs. so they gave up on that basically..

however, i dont believe anything regarding russia/the soviets. the kgb is on another level. for instance, recently, they announced a discovery of a record amount of diamond crystals in siberia, but the kgb has known about it since the 70's but kept it secret until they could start plundering it.

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

I don't think we ever did to begin with... there's NO WAY that footage of the men on the moon was actually shot there; too many inconsistencies


the thing is though, I'm sure the Gov't at the time didn't think that 40 years later people were going to be analyzing those videos frame by frame with hi-tech equipment, they were more concerned about beating the Russians to the moon

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

so weve been there "once" notice the "'s yet its not worth it to go back?

NASA SET FOOT ON THE MOON SIX TIMES, BROTHER!

Furthermore, if we were in such a "race" with the Soviets why have they not done it?

THE SOVIETS WERE THE FIRST TO REACH THE MOON, BROTHER! ALBEIT WITH AN UNMANNED CRAFT!

 

[Mr210]

NASA doesnt have the funding that it did back in the 60s and 70s i swear you idiots need to pick up a book

 

[Bilz]

It was never worth the risk to actually go there. If we sent them up there and they died, it would have been a disaster.

On a side note, I was on another forum in an "RIP Neil Armstrong" thread and someone was saying how it was so unbelievable that the man had been on the moon and that he was such a hero, etc. I responded and said I also found the story to be unbelievable and I got banned

 

[HacksawJimThuggin]

at the thought of the astronauts somehow surviving, making it through the Van Allen belt and having a full head of hair for years after being exposed to all of that radiation

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

at the thought of the astronauts somehow surviving, making it through the Van Allen belt and having a full head of hair for years after being exposed to all of that radiation

their dna would be shredded, provided they had bad protection

although...

The total radiation received by the astronauts varied from mission to mission but was measured to be between 0.16 and 1.14 rads, much less than the standard of five (5) rem per year set by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission for people who work with radioactivity.

so it is possible to be ok i suppose..but radiation is definitely a problem in spacetravel particularly for long periods of time

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

at the thought of the astronauts somehow surviving, making it through the Van Allen belt and having a full head of hair for years after being exposed to all of that radiation

Phil Plait's Bad Astronomy: Bad TV

Bad: A big staple of the HBs is the claim that radiation in the van Allen Belts and in deep space would have killed the astronauts in minutes. They interview a Russian cosmonaut involved in the USSR Moon program, who says that they were worried about going in to the unknowns of space, and suspected that radiation would have penetrated the hull of the spacecraft.

Good: Kaysing's exact words in the program are ``Any human being traveling through the van Allen belt would have been rendered either extremely ill or actually killed by the radiation within a short time thereof.''

This is complete and utter nonsense. The van Allen belts are regions above the Earth's surface where the Earth's magnetic field has trapped particles of the solar wind. An unprotected man would indeed get a lethal dose of radiation, if he stayed there long enough. Actually, the spaceship traveled through the belts pretty quickly, getting past them in an hour or so. There simply wasn't enough time to get a lethal dose, and, as a matter of fact, the metal hull of the spaceship did indeed block most of the radiation. For a detailed explanation of all this, my fellow Mad Scientist William Wheaton has a page with the technical data about the doses received by the astronauts. Another excellent page about this, that also gives a history of NASA radiation testing, is from the Biomedical Results of Apollo site. An interesting read!

It was also disingenuous of the program to quote the Russian cosmonaut as well. Of course they were worried about radiation before men had gone into the van Allen belts! But tests done by NASA showed that it was possible to not only survive such a passage, but to not even get harmed much by it. It looks to me like another case of convenient editing by the producers of the program.

 

[rantanamo]

at the thought of the astronauts somehow surviving, making it through the Van Allen belt and having a full head of hair for years after being exposed to all of that radiation

you must have seen that on tv or read on a conspiracy theorist website

Apollo 11's Translunar Trajectory

 

[Ritzy Sharon]

Stanley Kubrick had contractual disputes with the production company.