Wanna land on the Moon?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

http://www.firstmenonthemoon.com/

[Bella Fortuna]

Bang, zoom, straight to the moon?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Bang, zoom, straight to the moon?

It's kinda cool. Makes sense out of that long stream of techno-babble.

[PsychoSerenity]

Bang, zoom, straight to the moon?

It's kinda cool. Makes sense out of that long stream of techno-babble.

Awesome.

[Faithfree]

Good stuff!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I see they edited out the alien spaceships on the lip of the crater again.

[cronus]

Amazing what was possible with ancient sixties know how and hasn't been done since. Is it a lack of progress or a increase in fear?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Amazing what was possible with ancient sixties know how and hasn't been done since. Is it a lack of progress or a increase in fear?

The wow-factor was over. And there were more immediate things to be done.

[cronus]

Amazing what was possible with ancient sixties know how and hasn't been done since. Is it a lack of progress or a increase in fear?

The wow-factor was over. And there were more immediate things to be done.

Excuses...seems more America got scared and lost it's bottle the further away from the time we are....still no validators despite a widespread interest in things up there.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Excuses...seems more America got scared and lost it's bottle the further away from the time we are....still no validators despite a widespread interest in things up there.

I've heard other idiots say the same thing.

[cronus]

Excuses...seems more America got scared and lost it's bottle the further away from the time we are....still no validators despite a widespread interest in things up there.

I've heard other idiots say the same thing.

The entire control/communications side could be ten times more sophisticated and still fit on a ordinary laptop today. Metallurgy and materials technology is vastly more advanced and effecient. The only thing which is a real cost that would have kept pace with inflation in todays world is the fuel. Someone should be able to cost it out and find a entire Apollo prog today would be a fractional cost of the original?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Go on then.

[cronus]

Go on then.

Remove the idiot chains of the 1% holding human potential back and we shall return to the moon and do the other thing.

[Coito ergo sum]

Amazing what was possible with ancient sixties know how and hasn't been done since. Is it a lack of progress or a increase in fear?

A combination of a shift in priorities for the the US, and a general myopia and ignorance among the general public which has made it increasingly difficult to sell the idea of publicly funded Moon missions. Both Democrats and Republicans alike, in the US, are equally likely to be opposed to spending money on space missions, but often for different reasons.

I have no idea why other countries haven't pursued it. I wish they would, because that might light a fire under some of our populace to push us to either going back or doing something better.

[Coito ergo sum]

Go on then.

Remove the idiot chains of the 1% holding human potential back and we shall return to the moon and do the other thing.

It's not a mere 1% holding human potential back. It's 80%.