Why don't they fly to the Moon anymore?

[Ghost Rider]

Considering it's Space Exploration Fest I remember those days when it was so prestigious to be an astronaut. But they don't even fly to the Moon anymore... Why? Did they encounter hostile life form there? When are we going to Mars? 😏

[HypersleepyNaputunia]

van allen radiation belts

[JD]

Postat inițial de Ghost Rider:

Considering it's Space Exploration Fest I remember those days when it was so prestigious to be an astronaut. But they don't even fly to the Moon anymore...

Humans never landed on the moon. The lunar landings were all recorded in a Hollywood studio and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

[Groogo]

Postat inițial de Make Aliens Great Again:

Postat inițial de Ghost Rider:

Considering it's Space Exploration Fest I remember those days when it was so prestigious to be an astronaut. But they don't even fly to the Moon anymore...

Humans never landed on the moon. The lunar landings were all recorded in a Hollywood studio and directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Garbage.

[Haruspex]

It's because going to the moon is expensive and risky, and there's not much reward for doing so. Last time we were motivated to beat the Soviets to the punch. We don't have that same motivation today, and we have other priorities.

[JD]

Postat inițial de Groogo:

Garbage.

- Waving flag where there is no wind.
- No explanation of how we got back to Earth.
- Nixon talking to astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles in space without interruption over a telephone. Not even my $2400 cell phone in 2024 is that good.
- A space vehicle made of foil and duct tape that somehow made it to the moon and back.

Yeah sure! Let's go to the moon!

[↑↑↓↓←→←→BASelect]

Cause once the plane reaches a certain altitude the engine will stall out.

[Scorpion]

Van Allen radiation belt.

Did they even fly the first time, there? Original footage was somehow "misplaced" and (conveniently) lost, in a tiny storage space, despite being such a precious achievement for the entire humanity!

Now we only have "remastered" footage and no living creatures fly there, again. Go figure...

[Xero_Daxter]

Postat inițial de Haruspex:

It's because going to the moon is expensive and risky, and there's not much reward for doing so. Last time we were motivated to beat the Soviets to the punch. We don't have that same motivation today, and we have other priorities.

Didn’t the landing craft only have like… 30 seconds of fuel left? There was a high chance they could of been stuck on the moon.

[pants]

Postat inițial de Make Aliens Great Again:

- Nixon talking to astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles in space without interruption over a telephone. Not even my $2400 cell phone in 2024 is that good.

Actually, your cellphone is that good if you can route it through ground based high-gain antennae all over Earth, which would be eminently possible if you know where to call. From those antennae it would take approximately 1.25 seconds for the signal to get to the moon. Assuming you got a relatively direct line to aforementioned antennae, you wouldn't end up adding too much more time on top of that (due to resistance and distance, etc)

sorry im boring i just wanted you to know that your $2400 phone can still do it :3

[Monnsteri]

It's expensive and dangerous.

[Kargor]

Postat inițial de Ghost Rider:

But they don't even fly to the Moon anymore... Why?

Been there, done that. At some point, NASA decided they had enough moon-rocks.

[a profile]

turtle-sensei blew the moon away with a particle wave millennia ago. it's an artifical mass the relay passes through. carbosilicate rock comes out of the mass hole for reasons. sometimes space junk impacts it, makes puddles.

[Haruspex]

Postat inițial de Make Aliens Great Again:

- Waving flag where there is no wind.

More like swinging, like a pendulum. There's a rigid rod at the top to extend the flag outward, and the bottom was swinging a bit, made easier by the complete lack of air resistance.

Postat inițial de Make Aliens Great Again:

- No explanation of how we got back to Earth.

Lander still had enough fuel to lift off from the lunar surface and get back into lunar orbit. (Much easier without air resistance and the fact that the moon is smaller than the Earth.) From there, adjust orbit to rendezvous with lunar orbiter again, which had enough fuel itself to exit lunar orbit and return to Earth.

Postat inițial de Make Aliens Great Again:

- Nixon talking to astronauts hundreds of thousands of miles in space without interruption over a telephone. Not even my $2400 cell phone in 2024 is that good.

Your phone's radio isn't set up to communicate with something in space. People with a HAM radio license can communicate with the ISS today, and every day people use satellite Internet which is just radio communication with a geostationary satellite 35,786 Km away. Also Nixon's conversation had a time delay of about 1.5 seconds there, and another 1.5 seconds back.

Postat inițial de Make Aliens Great Again:

- A space vehicle made of foil and duct tape that somehow made it to the moon and back.

They had to make it light, and it didn't make it back. The LRV is still on the moon today. This was intentional. (Edit: I realize you mean the lander. The rover is still on the moon. The lander just needed to survive the one round trip.)

[Devsman]

It was never about SPAAAAACE COOOOOOOL. It was a stupidly overkill flex of missile prowess against the soviets in the midst of the cold war.

[vkobe]

Postat inițial de Ghost Rider:

Considering it's Space Exploration Fest I remember those days when it was so prestigious to be an astronaut. But they don't even fly to the Moon anymore... Why? Did they encounter hostile life form there? When are we going to Mars? 😏

they sing too badly