Why has there been no Moon landings with people in decades?

I'm not speaking about individuals with murder intent, we have laws for that. I'm speaking about society at large. We invest in military because we want to be protected against the 'other'. The 'other' invests in military because they want to be protected from us. What we have here is a failure to communicate.

In the 50s they expected Flying Cars
In the 70s they expected Moon Bases
Now they expect bases on Mars

Too late, off limits.

Did someone draw dickbutt on lunar surface and NASA covered it up ?

looks like folding lawn chair.

But it could be ayy lamo

We should be covering the far side with solar panels.

Its hard and expensive and dangerous and, most importantly, pointless

>Why has there been no Moon landings with people in decades?
Lack of political demand.
Most people don't care, and most politicians would rather spend tax money on things that either make them rich or popular.

>pointless
Not really. There's a shitload of research that could be done by people working on the Moon. The data on human adaption to reduced gravity alone is a pretty compelling reason to go.

Relatively speaking, it's not as expensive as it once was. Aside from radio astronomy and colonization I don't think there's much more science that can be done on the moon that can't just as easily be performed by drones.

For the most part, manned space exploration is now a political taboo. Any world leader that brings it up is literally jeopardizing their career.

>The moon is hollow and not a natural formation, retards will try to deny this.

Did Odyssey 5 come up with this meme?

>drones

Maybe you should check into the current state of robotics. I don't think it's as advanced as you think it is.

It'll be a long time before drones will have the capability of actual humans in a lab.

Because weather in space is like Earth except increased danger.

>inb4money
Retard that is the single biggest issue, if it only cost as much as a plane ticket everyone would pop over there to chill.

>Let's say all nations stop funding military and start funding international space exploration.
Sure, but that will never ever happen. Do you realize how unlikely that is? I don't think you do. Even if you were able to hypnotist everyone to stop spending on the military all funds would then be poured into welfare--that's what the people really want. If you left your basement regularly you'd know this.

We already have people living in space with no gravity to test those effects. Why land them on the moon when it takes more energy to escape the moon's gravity than it does to return to the Earth directly from space?

It is a proof

Because living in the moon dipshit

I like how you say that and resort to name calling as if that magically explains anything. He asked why we aren't testing the effects of living under reduced gravity and I explained that we were. How about instead explaining why it would be better to live on the moon than in space when there is no possibility of terraforming the moon anyways?

THERE IS NO WIND ON THE MOON

WHO FLIPPED OVER THE LAWN CHAIR

it's finally happening again
:wtf face

there hasnt been any moon landings after 1980 because we either faked it or it is under wraps as black projects.
And the arrows point towards the landings being fake since every other superpower has the capability of doing so and its advantage in warfare.

Money is no object and federal spending is thrice the price of 1969 rocketry.

For someone who observes the moon, its a complete mystery even to the egg heads in top science of what the moon actually is.

My point is this: If there are different theories of the moon on its origin, then its likely what we are told about it through public relations is false.

>I'm not a conspiracy guy, just wondering why aren't we sending up there guys every year to make a base or something and do some ground research?
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>>inb4money
>said every socialist ever
>Let's say all nations stop funding military and start funding international space exploration.
the one nation that doesn't stop will conquer the rest

>doesn't have a lawn chair canon to shoot lawn chairs at the moon

It looks like a paper clip outline almost, my best guess would be some sort of impurity in the photo development stage.

>We already have people living in space with no gravity to test those effects.
No, we don't. People in space will tell us what 0g does to humans, but it doesn't actually give us any information about how humans will adapt to conditions between 1g and 0g.

We have no idea if 0.5g is half as bad as 0g, if anything below 0.8g will fuck people up in 14months, or if people can happily live in anything above 0.15g for decades at a time. And if we ever want to step foot on anything more distant than the Moon, this is knowledge we NEED to have.

>How about instead explaining why it would be better to live on the moon than in space when there is no possibility of terraforming the moon anyways?
Close to Earth, with easy access to metals and oxygen. It's not ideal, but nowhere else is either.

>And the arrows point towards the landings being fake since every other superpower has the capability of doing so and its advantage in warfare.
How does turning around and moving hundreds of thousands of kilometers in the other direction help with warfare?

>For someone who observes the moon, its a complete mystery even to the egg heads in top science of what the moon actually is.
What.

ROCKET LAWN CHAIR

His whole post can be summed up with
>what?

why would we go back to the moon?

On the other hand, the US military spending is fucking high compared to any other country. Sure you could say it is because in global politics, the guy with the most military strength makes the rules, but still a little less spending on the MIC couldn't hurt.

It's a matter of priorities. NASA's goal was to build a "space outpost". Doing the ISS in LEO was easier than doing it on the moon (and seen as a stepping stone to it).

The ISS began operations in 1998, with a 20 year lifespan. NASA had anticipated that by 2018 they would have a shuttle replacement and modernized lander. This whole thing comes down to NASA/the government fucking up Constellation. Their fuck ups pushed everything back 5 years, from 2016 to 2021. This left an unexpected gap of 5 years without any space access.

Under normal circumstances, NASA expected to be doing moon missions by the early 2020s. Now that's pushed back to the late 2020s.

>For the most part, manned space exploration is now a political taboo. Any world leader that brings it up is literally jeopardizing their career.

Not in the US, Russia or China. It's still the goal for all three, but with different obstacles (the US with bureaucracy, Russia with money, China with talent and money).

>the moon is a corner-cube reflector
please tell me more about how radio waves behave identical to a laser beam

bump

Our leaders are INCOMPETENT.
Our military, and let me tell you about this, our military is in RUINS.

Our space is being INVADED every day, by ayy lmaos who get in and ABUSE our country.

We WILL build a glass dome, and who will pay for it?

Crowd: AYYYY LMAOS!!!
WHO?
AYY LMAOOOSSS!!!!

And you can bet on it. They will pay for the whole dome.

AND WE.WILL.HAVE.BETTER.RELATIONS.WITH. AYY. LMAOS.

Cuz we dont get respect now.

NObody respect us.

We need to make our country great again.

*AIRHORN*

>Lets say all nations stop funding military

Oh so world peace is the objective. Okay now we can get right on that.

Pretty much this.

1970s: NASA wanted a reusable vehicle that could transport big payloads into space. With the conclusion of Apollo and Skylab, NASA's next priority is to build an outpost in space. LEO is easier than the moon, and Von Braun himself advocated for one (building a giant space ring was his unfinished project). VB himself dies in 1977. The Space Shuttle could also potentially get launch costs down where private spaceflight might become feasible. It checks all the boxes and development begins.

1980s: The STS program launches, with the two biggest payloads being spacelab missions and comsat deployments. Sally Ride goes to space, and the Challenger blows up in '86.

1990s: Ditto, but now NASA is also doing STS-MIR missions with the newly formed Russian Federation. People begin to think about what will replace the shuttle. Most importantly, the ISS begins construction in 1998. This is a big deal, as nothing like this has been attempted before.

2000s: Despite the Columbia burnup in 2003, NASA continues building the ISS. Everything goes fine as countries without space ships are able to have space programs. Everyone wonders how they're going to commercialize it. NASA, by now, realizes that the Shuttle architecture is not cost effective and draws up Constellation.

2010s: Following stoppages due to red tape (and a lack of money due to the 2008 recession), Constellation is over five years behind schedule and everyone agrees to nix it. NASA salvages Orion and SLS, with the Altair/moon lander development TBA. As the Shuttle retires, Russian Soyuz rockets fill the gap. SpaceX makes loads of money launching comsats. Also the RD-180 scandal happens and ULA is formally stripped of their private sector monopoly.

2020s: Hopefully, SLS and Orion are flying by 2022 and Altair development will begin by 2020 or so. This would make moon missions by 2026 plausible.

tl;dr 40 years ago NASA made some bad bets where the future of space travel would be (spaceplanes vs capsules) which combined with red tape in the 2000s got us to where we are now.

The same reason why I stopped flying after I did my 'First Solo' flight.

Even though it was hard, and I ended up pulling off a perfect landing (it's on video), it was too expensive to continue much after that, and I had already proven myself.

Plus no one else in my family or friends circle gave a fuck.

Or, the same reason why I finished my Honours Degree and bailed out of academia. It was hard, but I did well.

Again, no one I knew gave a shit.
People are mainly stupid, self-obsessed, superstitious creatures that more prefer fingering their own arseholes than doing anything adventurous. These include politicians.

Therefore it's very hard to get money for such things.

But get excited, Commercial Space Exploration just got a shot of adrenalin, and his name is Musk.

We are going to Mars cunts. And NASA will be there, cheering SpaceX on.