Why NASA hasn’t gone back to the Moon
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- Published on Jul 16, 2019
- NASA has big plans to return to the Moon by 2024, and it’s banking on the historic Space Launch System (SLS) to get them there. But after years of delays and cost overruns, skeptics are questioning whether SLS should remain the biggest priority for NASA. As the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing approaches, we take a look at what the future of solar system exploration might bring.
Correction: An earlier version of this video showed an incorrect SLS configuration at 00:32, and an older rocket model at 2:16. The video has been updated to correct those inaccuracies.
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Where in the solar system would you explore next?
Why NASA hasn’t gone back to the Moon -- because they never went in the first place.
Let's start with the moon
NASA and 21st-century infrastructure are more important than the military-industrial complex.
Never went. Will never go there. End of story for those who have two brain cells that connect.
Why do stars twinkle? Communication. You man, as a race, a species, have to get to know each other, before you can understand a little more about the existence you were born to. Not so intelligent, or civilized, not to get along, but hey, let others do it on your behalf. Not get along that is, while you go live your everyday lives, and make a living for those who think they have a right. 86 your public servants(political leaders). They are ruining much, on your behalf.
Love how she starts this video with the purpose being to send the first women to the moon lol. Can we for once put aside this gender equality stuff? This is science and no one cares about your PC gender message.
All I see are liars on Capitol hill. They'd rather spend money on killing the next man instead of advancing mankind. Fucking cowards who have the nerve to call themselves REAL AMERICANS!
Read Gene Krantz book, "Failure is not an option". When they let Apollo die, the best of NASA died too. A Monkey can wear a spacesuit and sit in an automated box until the mission is over. What they DO NOT have is the virtual army of engineers and technicians that made up the 4 full flight crews. Those that sat in one room for a 10 hour shift every day 7 days a week for the length of every mission. 4 shifts per 24 hour day. One team for EVERY system and sub system in the launch vehicle, capsule, second stage, third stage, lander, rover, every thing we use in space. There is no stable status quo in space. Everything is in flux and those teams must be experts in their system. It is they that the launch director goes to when things turn belly up. Apollo 13 is not the only time a mission had a bad problem. Every mission had at least 10 or more problems crop up. 13 was just the worst. Several more were life threatening too, they were just solved quickly and the missions went on.
To build a launch vehicle is one thing. To make it fly was another. To insure it lasted the whole mission is yet another. The FLIGHT ENGINEERS are what made every mission a success. When things drop in the ash bin, the astronauts ask , "What are our options?" The flight director and crew are what give those options and solutions.
If NASA was serious, they would have had a small team work with Boeing during construction of the SLS Booster. Then they would in turn teach more engineers what they learned. You must start this process years in advance. That is why NASA is not serious about returning to the moon. They spend what funds they get on many, many small programs, but ignore the important one.
Read Gene Krantz book. (soon)
I have a feeling we haven’t been back because we never left. 👽👁👁🔭
#bs
THAT CHIC NEEDS A BIG ROCKET,..... $R$D$
YOU HAVE SOMETHING HANGING OUT OF ''YOOR-ANUS'',...... DIAMONDS!!!! $R$D$
Haha, you know all the conspiracy trolls are calling this a staged acting job. We're all sheeple, people!
Apollo MISSIONS ONLY CIRCLED EARTH IN LOW ORBIT.
Peter Bruns easy, at least let him get to his safe space 😂
You're full of shit. That was the Mercury and Gemini missions. Apollo went to the moon.
Here's the secret tape why they didn't.
ru-clip.net/video/9WoM2bHfr48/video.html
We still don't know if there were any additional fatalities in the various programs other than what we know. Perhaps this too will be disclosed when truth becomes the norm instead of deception.
To answer your question... Because Stanley Kubrick would not film it again... The only place NASA is going is up Uranus...
SOLVE THE RIDDLE.... and the TRUTH will be known.
Your voice is so lovely.
I bet its even lovelier when she shuts her hole.
The rumor has always been that the aliens up there told us to never come back. Good reason to stay away.
I don't really think we ever went to the moon in the first place. It was faked somewhere on the desert on earth. It's already been proved human's can't stand all the radiation in space, as well as other things. Would not be the first of last time our government has lied to us.
Just saying.
Because they haven’t fucking been on it to begin with
Hahahahaha hahaha!!
They spend 5,9 trillion on war.
But
No one is attacking?!
They attack their self to create more war.. oke.
264 bill should be no problem.
Mercedes SLS
Oh copy right!
Climate change?
No map.
get elon musk to help
Fuck to death these lying demons!!!!!!
I hate them for lying too, but I wouldn't go so far as to call moon-landing deniers "demons"
"every dollar we spend is here in this country"
liar
what they aren't telling us is that those engines used by the shuttle were made by RUSSIA
using NASA to address climate change? Jesus lady, for real?
They haven't gone back because they never went. We needed to show superiority to Russia and a fake studio landing would do. There is the Van Allen radiation belt we can't get through not to mention fuel. sorry folks the cold war metrics changed shortly after the fake landing and we didn't need to go back because the Russian threat had been greatly reduced.
Yes, we CAN go through the Van Allen belts. What do you know about the Van Allen belts that astrophysicists do not? What is your problem with the fuel again? Everything you say is soooooo full of shiite.
Then how come the USSR could track Apollo 11 to the moon and back? And if you actually did some research on the VA belts instead of believing everything you're told, you'd know that they aren't a magic death field, that incinerates everything that comes near it.
No mullah, y'all.
All lie. They say we went mars but cant going moon. which is expensive ?
Buzz wants to know... Well... He does know... Right Buzz!?
I give you 1000 dollars and you buy me a house. Oh, you cant? Well i guess houses dont exist then.
girl, do something with your voice. It's so disturbing, the way how you enlenght the words with bad voice or something, it's ripping the ears. Had to turn it off in half , couldn't stand it more. It's like torture. Cannot you speak normaly? Clean? Not like prostitute or some cheap bitch? Then, you can narrate. Thank you.
"There's no other rocket out there that can do that" ^_^ The more I think about it, the more sure I become about moon landing being fake.. Footage gone, no approach for half a century if that doesn't ring a bell nothing will
There also hasn't been a lander on Venus since 1984, so is that proof that those were fake aswell?
Space agencies sometimes change priorities, it's not hard to understand.
verge science should drop a podcast
Basically NASA has NOT gone back to the moon because NASA has NEVER gone there yet.
FFS you actually believe they landed on the moon?!! 🤔🤦♀️🐑🕎📡🐁💩💲💲💲💲👁💩🤣👀
Moon is a toxic explosive glass shard dust bowl. It is not like sand or Earth dust. Moon dust is sharp sticky broken glass like knifes. Moon dust is also explosive. Astronaut moon walks and space walks will tell you space and the moon smell like spent gun power. That is due to suns solar debris are explosive free radicals that explode on contact with eyes lungs space suites air or every thing and anything it comes in contact with.
NASA hasn't been back back to the moon because they never went. They know that with the internet/computers and everything else, faking it like before would be next to impossible. NASA has been lying about technology and how far along they are as well. As long as they keep their own people pushing the fake alien agenda and keep people skeptical about our technology, they will be able to fool the public forever.
But we've got an International Fake Station..
Which weirdly makes people join our flat earth thing instead of questioning what is in the outer space that we don't want them to see.
wtf are you talking about?
Even today's technology still cannot solve the severe problems out there: 1. Van Allen Belts 2. Background radiation 3. Solar radiation 4. Sun flares 5. Micro meteorites 6. Huge differences in temperature 7. 0 Bar outside pressure 8. Long term effects of 0 Gravity on the human body. Look what it did to Scott Kelly.
Perhaps because it was a hoax one of many. Van Allen radiation belt...nuff said
Yup, that stereotypical Van Allen belt is a hoax. The astronauts passed through the diluted parts and so fast they barely got any radiation.
yea they need to go back to hide the fact they never went to begin with. I thought they said they lost the tech to go to the moon? LOL
They never went back to moon because the moon started to charge tickets for parking ...
Chandrayaan 2, a moon mission by India is carrying a NASA's instrument to the moon... Why NASA needs a moon mission when they can just outsource it.
I think they have better odds of reviving Stanley Kubrick than actually going back to the moon.
They have kitchen's on the Moon ?
""One small step..." was done racing to be the first. Should have started with ISS. And then ISS2 next to the Moon. ...and so on...
But if we took that long, the USSR might have won the race.
NASA says they r going to moon for the benefit of humanity whereas the true benefit of humanity lies upon stopping GLOBAL WARMING and shifting to a lifestyle beneficial for the planet so that it can survive.........
They should focus on SAVING EARTH rather than building OIL DRINKING MONSTERS that produce large amounts of TOXIC GLASSES harmful for our planet just to reach a fuckin BARREN UNHABITABLE satellite.
Go read what Dr Dave Bushnell says about the weather !
While I'm totally pro-space to say that "the endeavor [the SLS] is a big job creator" is a bit disingenuous. A lot of space contractors are defense contractors and these contracts are often more JOB SUBSIDIES than job creators. But most of all they are subsidies for billionaires.
SpaceX is cool not only because they build cool tech. But also because they do it at a good price.
The "GYPSTERS" cannot compete when capityol companies know the real costs and care-Gov procurement is a death knell-
Back??? 😂🤣😅.....they literally never went....
@holtman2012 Quite ironic, coming from you.
@Vyralator that's literally the most uneducated, fact oblivious comment I've read...
@holtman2012 Fooled by what? Overwhelming evidence for the moon-landing, including evidence from third-party sources that couldn't have possibly been in on it?
Gee, I sure am gullible, unlike moon-deniers who base their belief on hard facts, like not understanding how cameras work for instance.
@Vyralator lol.. you literally were fooled.....everytime
Because NASA never went to moon
They did though
You might be interested in this video which shows how difficult a job going to the moon was: ru-clip.net/video/zb4N2OAuMEo/video.html was:
Laughing at all the people that really thinks space is real😂😂😂😂😂 you blind sheep you don’t even know you favorite political government is brainwashing you with lies.
If only you knew how many parts of you day to day life relied on space not being fake
Because they ran out of ideas on how to trick the public using fake cgi
mo money, mo problems:)) and all we hear is lies,lies,lies...
One hypothetical answer : George H. Leonard was a former NASA scientist in the photo intelligence division of NASA , as well as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He wrote this book : checktheevidencecom.ipage.com/checktheevidence.com/pdf/George_Leonard__SOMEBODY%20ELSE%20IS%20ON%20THE%20MOON%20OP.pdf
Kind of weird if you know that leonard did work for nasa... And if you dig the way nasa makes pictures classification what he states is true. In the online archives free access of nasa's appollo mission's pictures the content available is only around 30% of what was really taken : www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/images17.html
Because... because... the aliens said don't come back?
Anything the government does has so much waste because it is government money. In the 60's people really wanted to do this. Now people just want to keep the money coming to them.
2:00 "Industry also rose to the challenge..." the major company NOT mentioned was Grumman Aerospace, which designed and built the Lunar Module. HUGE component of the Apollo success.
I have a request for verge: can u make a video about plans to clear up space junk that is orbiting around te earth?
Apollo Robux
8:40 Not sure what she's talking about, does she know about starship?
Aliens haven't renewed Humanities Visa lol
debating if we still went to the moon or not???? some of us recognize that we have been on a completely different planet earth. The one I remember had a north pole, only one moon landing which was contested as fake, four people in the keneddy car murder, and too many other differences to mention here. Whether people from your earth planet has been to the moon or not shouldnt be your main concern...waking up should be! You have many strangers among you that are not from this earth or timeline. That in itself should be solved first. Figure out how to get them back home safely first, then deal with your space nonsense issues. There are more earths than yours!!!
Lol
Blue origin have a lot a money but surpass by SpaceX that have les budget than blue origin
I want to know when is NASA going to button moon
In my opinion, I think nasa has sent even more people to the moon. They hide and cover up the rocket blasts to make sure nobody knows.
Good to know the facts.
Some Chinese RU-clipr are wide spreading some other conspiracy make u laugh...
NASA can't get to the moon and never has been able to. Funding is a feeble excuse - the cost of the shuttle was WAY more.
To replace the Saturn V you'd simply need 3 SRBs and RD-180, hardly rocket science....
The better question is 'Why have NASA been spending all their efforts on the ridiculous Apollo fakes?'
and "Why hasn't NASA gone higher than 250-350 miles?". Let me guess, the excuse will be 'There's nothing to see there' - right.
After the 9 flights of Apollo it's interesting that NASA didn't manage to get a single sighting or single photo of the stars. I wonder why they bothered with Hubble then if there was nothing to see?
@Vyralator What cost _was_ intended? Why have any cost at all? NASA had plans for a garrison on the moon back then - why didn't they just get on with it? The entire fiasco of scrapping your best ever rocket system you've just spent $billions on and works perfectly - is if it didn't work.
The very good, simple reason Saturn V was scrapped is because a) it wasn't what they said it was and b) it was a hopeless rocket.
Read the facts and then decide: www.serendipity.li/more/myth_of_apollo.htm#5
Just because the Space Shuttle in the end turned out to be way more expensive then intended, doesn't mean they planed it that way.
i dont understand why people are still asking and answering this question as if its a mystery. i mean sure you can go more in depth with the economy and politics but it doesnt REanswer the question anymore.
I don't get it : Space is the next challenge to all of the Humane race.
I'm disappointed when I see other countries trying to repeat what was done by USA, 50 years ago (China, India, etc.).
I don't know where is the challenge (We have now powerful computer .. in a size of a credit card, new materials, etc.).
If you have money and resources, you can do it ! I guess it(s only to prove that Chinese or Indian scientists are as good as American scientists ?...who can really doubt about this ? no one...
At least there is the ISS... but why going to Mars.. without the fund and the Help of other countries (Russia, Europe,...) ?
I'm sure the future of Mankind is in space but the cost is astronomical right now. Let's hope we can start Space exploration and the creation of colonies before the end of all resources on the surface of the Earth....