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?
Interstellar space
Holywood.
Our oceans on Earth are still undiscovered. The Earths core is unknown. We should learn our own planet first & save the Amazon forest before poking at other moons/planets. Deep sea is more important for our survival than deep space.
@igotthejack44 Correct.
President Obama said we don't have the technology 🤔
This comment section is a wreck, i honestly cant believe people dont believe we didnt land on the moon.
For gods sake theres pictures of the landing site taken from earth
( Because they never been there )
Stop
THE WATCHERS warns U.S.A. stay away from moon.
NASA Is obsolete,T.Rex out with the old in with new.Save Earth clamate change.
i think people should fix this planet before ruining others
If i cut my wee wee off will they let me go to the moon? Lol
Anyone who thinks man walked on the moon and landed in that poorly built tinfoil "landing craft"in the 60's are really gullible
@Yeff Why would we need a suit on NASA's moon? On their moon there is air and water - look at how it's weathered the rocks in all their photos:
Example photos:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5912.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/AS15-82-11140.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17377.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17393.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-116-18629.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-140-21496.jpg
Physics:
1. How can an object land on a soft dusty surface yet make no mark?
2. How can an object become buried in dust yet remain free of dust?
3. How can an object have it's corners worn away?
Plenty of air and water - no suit required.
Both of you should be put onto the moon without a suit.
The Apollo fakes are not ageing well. Every day it's looking faker and faker to more and more people. NASA is becoming a joke, not even capable of orbit now, drowning in its own lies.
It really blew our mind that with the 1969 technology of that time, NASA could successfully send many astronauts roaming the moon with their motorized buggies, TV broadcast, propelled two men safely from moon surface back to Earth, BUT just couldn't duplicate some of the same acts on the moon 50 years later (2019) with more superior & advance technologies in the names of: supercomputer, super-alloy, safer rocket, telecommunication, nano & quantum technologies, AI, electronics, and far more reliable machineries & equipments!
We haven't gone back because of cost vs benefit.
hmnnnn..... forgot the starship huh?
Only a brainwashed fool would believe in the NASA fairy tale. Unfortunately most Americans are brainwashed to believe in this lie by the U.S. Government. By the way, the moon landings Hoax is an example of what Hitler was referring to when he was talking about the "Big Lie". You should go read about what Hitler said about the Big Lie, because it pertains to this subject. And do you know what people Hitler was talking about in reference to the Big Lie? You should. They are the people running the United States of America. They have no compunction at all about telling really big lies for short term gain. They did the same thing during 9-11, another example of the Big Lie.
Because they never went in the first place. NASA is one of the most blatantly dishonest hoaxes in the U.S. Government. If there is one word to describe them it would be "shameless".
@Thomas Pickering The entire State Department,17 Intelligence agencies, the
DOD, and the DOJ--NEED BE FIRED FOR CAUSE
@Milt Farrow But it is not just NASA that is shameless. It is the entire United States Government that is shameless. Our entire country is full of lies and liars. There is no coming back from this. These lies must be maintained forever. If they ever admit, even once, that they lied, the entire U.S. Government comes unraveled. They have to maintain the lies they started just to continue to survive. This puts us ordinary Americans in a terrible mess. We live inside of a Lie Factory brought to us by our own Government.
totally agree-the REAL science confronts the fraud
easily
The moon is the ultimate man cave.
If we send women then we'll also have to send washing machines, kitchen stoves and vacuum cleaners.
They never went there in the first place.
@al gung Its easy when you have Disneys theatrical stagehands and set builders. who could build sets to scale in hours
Adam Herwis* BRAVO! It really blew our mind that with the 1969 technology of that time, NASA could successfully send many men roaming the moon with their motorized buggies, but just couldn't duplicate some of the same acts on the moon 50 years later with more superior & advance technologies of the names such as: supercomputer, super-alloy, nano, quantum, AI, and far more reliable machineries & equipments! 🤡
yep all total bulloks
NASA can't get a man into orbit let alone past the VAB. Four years to invent radiation shielding that works outside the VAB and to get to the moon and back?
Not. A. Chance. They'll just have to fake it again, but better this time, the Apollo fake is rubbish.
Why waste money on new technology use the same one we do still have those right.
Trump should be like JFK now send them now to the moon no brain no balls no men on the moon sorry humans maybe never moon landing ok thanks you.
According to NASA astronaut Don Petit we destroyed the technology to go to the moon. Destroyed the technology? I can't think of a better example that demonstrates NASA's lies.
Well.. they did bulldoze MGM Borehamwood, England shortly after filming the Apollo 11 landing there so technically NASA might have a point...!
No. No chance human beings went to the Moon. Most people on the planet , think this is the case. About 25% of American citizens think/know this is the case. Believe me, if we ever go 'back' to our nearest natural satellite, it will be never or in other 50-100 years minimum, if technology continues to follow its exponential growth curve and allows manned journey to be possible.
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon @ and I JUST LOVE I'd go to the moon, but we don't have that technology anymore - NASA Astronaut Don Pettit
Nasa of course would never admit the real truth why they haven't returned to the moon,its got fck all to do with funding and technology-the last men on the moon were warned off to never return. The moon is hollow,NASA even proved it themselves when they crashed the Luna module onto the moons surface and it rang like a bell for over an hour.Look at all the lunar anomalies, structures,towers,the moon is a satellite and it's not what NASA would have you believe. Time to wake up ppl and look at what's really up there.
They don't know it 'rang like a bell' because they have never got there.
It's also highly unlikely a solid lump of rocks and dust would have a resonance, it has MASCONs - mass concentrations which pretty much rule out any resonance.
Try holding two sheets of steel together and get them to resonate.
What utter nonsense.
They going to send the first woman to the moon? please send Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and all the corrupt democrats and all the shit heads from the view show.
elon musk be like “hold my beer”
BLAH BLAH BLAH LIES LIES LIES
NASA Apollo missions never placed a single man on the moon. It was a hoax. Just like Sandy Hook massacre was a hoax.
@100100911 The suit water system was not developed, pressure is critical to prevent boiling and there's the real risk of freezing the water on the cold side - plus what batteries in the PLSS would power all the pumps etc?
The biggest mistake however is the fact NASA photographed lots of earth rocks.
Photos:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5912.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/AS15-82-11140.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17377.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17393.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-116-18629.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-140-21496.jpg
Physics:
1. How can an object land on a soft dusty surface yet make no mark?
2. How can an object become buried in dust yet remain free of dust?
3. How can an object have it's corners worn away?
Look closely at the sand, the stones and the rocks on an 'airless' moon subject to a constant rain of dust and the odd meteor. It's nonsense.
@Graham And how did the suits of the astro-nots protect them from temperature extremes? No one outside of NASA has ever been allowed to examine the suits to see if they actually worked and how. How did the camera film survive temperature extremes? NASA has NO credibility in regards to ANY statements it may deliver and try to pass as facts.
@100100911 E.Rose is attempting to cast you as a 'conspiracy theorist' in order to prove that NASA went to the moon. Of course they didn't and the two items are disconnected, much like large parts of E-Roses's logic circuits. Theorising about conspiracies should be encourages, Iraq, Libya and Syria would still be rich, prosperous nations today if more people did.
The fact is the 'pro-science' believers are always trying to stop any critical thought about the myriad of problems with the Apollo story. My favourite problem (which you may like to chat to a geologist about) are the rocks:
Photos:
www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/AS11-40-5912.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a15/AS15-82-11140.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17377.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-106-17393.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a16/AS16-116-18629.jpg
history.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/AS17-140-21496.jpg
Physics:
1. How can an object land on a soft dusty surface yet make no mark?
2. How can an object become buried in dust yet remain free of dust?
3. How can an object have it's corners worn away?
So the data we see tells us NASA took all their photos on the earth.
@100100911 Of course anything that proves you wrong MUST be "highly suspect of being fraudulent" or just outright "fake", right? I mean after all, your narrative is totally reliant on that.
@E. Rose It possibly means there is hardware orbiting the earth they dont want us to see? The kind of photos I mentioned are scarce and all are highly suspect to being fraudulent.
We can't go BACK to a place that we never went to in the first place.
Cause aliens canceled nasa
corruption?
Smh why does nasa need a budget. Money isn't limited. Its mass produced. Just give them a load. Make scientific history. Colonize planets. It's not hard to give a couple of billion dollars to NASA when countries mass produce money.
Because losses value based on supply, you really know nothing of economics if you think mass produceing money and throwing it at a problem will solve anything that would just make it worse.
Short answer:
Not enough funding for space
Way too much funding for defense
Shorter answer (and the correct one): RADIATION.
They have been receiving over 50 million a day for over 50 years......
I still have a tough time that technology from the 60s haven’t been up graded and easier to make, computers are how much smaller??? What’s the issue?
@Trueantitheist Your cost vs benefit fails due to the THREE times the return has been ordered and funded:
Orders back to the moon
GHWBush's Space Exploration Initiative in 1989, announced on the steps of the National Air and Space Museum.
history.nasa.gov/sei.htm
GWBush's Constellation program in 2005-2009 (GWBush's Orders to return to the moon 2004)
www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/research/exploringtheuniverse/constellation.html
Project Artemis - the moon by 2024
www.nasa.gov/specials/artemis/
As for the radiation that I 'don't know about' here is the NASA video describing how there is no known shielding for the cosmic radiation outside of the VAB, a viewpoint backed up by the Project Orion team.
ru-clip.net/video/vebJDVsMQpU/video.html
NASA Engineer Admits They Can't Get Past The Radiation Belts
ru-clip.net/video/4O5dPsu66Kw/video.html
And here's the radiation at the lunar surface
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/08sep_radioactivemoon/
NASA dummies to fly around moon to test radiation vests
ru-clip.net/video/UnSs-hRGoGU/video.html
@Graham You obviously have no idea what you're talking about radiation isn't a problem that can't he solved with proper shielding, no it's just cost vs benefit.
It's not the technology it's the problem of cost vs benefit.
RADIATION is still the problem, notice that no one _ever_ goes above Low Earth Orbit. Ever.
Computers aren't the issue, it's the sheer amount of pure resources that would have to be spent on building a giant rocket - the materials, the construction, years of testing etc..
Wana get to get to space fast make 24 nuclear reactors onboard. Or learn how to use antimatter for energy so we can have tons and power and speed
All nonsense. Nobody ever went to the moon.
We can't go back to where we have not gone before.
Best comment here, I do not know why most of these goons are missing this point!
Why go to the moon, get your own house in order first.
Fix this planet, instead of looking for others to go and pollute/destroy.
Case closed, makes sense to me now
NASA never went the first time. They can't land on a luminarry in the firmemant- impossible!
Okay flatard.
really
Buzz Aldrin can do anything
its to risky to fake it again
we have NEVER BEEN ON THE MOON!!!!!
This is all lies. NASA is sending probes into deep space outside our solar system they sent probes in Landers even to other planets way far away, the Moon is right next door. They have the technology they have the money they have everything they need they have the interest. What they also have are aliens on the moon that don't want us there and that have technology that we can't rival. Also the moon isn't all dead and gray and empty like we were taught growing up. Get rid of the paradigm of the Moon that you were raised with and start researching it with brand new eyes and see what you find out
Get help.
Have you not looked at the Moon through a telescope? You should.
Get back to reality, it's nice here.
WERE NOT EXPLORING DEEP SPACE WITH ROCKETS AND CHEMICAL PROPULSION. IF THAT ISN'T OBVIOUS, YOU HAVE NO VISION.
Do you have a better system, if so let's hear it.
Global warming is just nature or Mother Earth doing its thing. Geoengineering can’t get fucked
we haven't yet put GPS on planes for security , going to the moon is just NASA's dream , I'm fed up of BS
SpaceX is better!
@Trueantitheist Here is the NASA video describing how there is no known shielding for the cosmic radiation outside of the VAB, a viewpoint backed up by the Project Orion team.
ru-clip.net/video/vebJDVsMQpU/video.html
NASA Engineer Admits They Can't Get Past The Radiation Belts
ru-clip.net/video/4O5dPsu66Kw/video.html
And here's the radiation at the lunar surface
science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/08sep_radioactivemoon/
NASA dummies to fly around moon to test radiation vests
ru-clip.net/video/UnSs-hRGoGU/video.html
@Graham Radiation has nothing to do with it.
But still afrid of going higher than Low Earth Orbit. The players change but the radiation remains the same.
After giving a speech about going back to the moon Trump then put Jim Bridenstine in charge ( a politician who got funding from none other than Northrop Grumman). On his first day in office (April 23 2018) he cancelled any moon missions, without even discussing it with any staff at NASA. Why would he do that? He was paid to.
@ann onn Why? Yet Another Plan to 'return' to the moon?
Someone invented some magic cosmic ray proof radiation shielding?
NASA going to come clean about the Apollo fakery?
You're gonna look very silly soon.
Hope you'll be watching on Monday.
NASA spend a lot of words talking about returning to the moon, they have done this for half a century. What no one _ever_ does however is go higher than Low Earth Orbit.
Quite simply, he didn't.
One specific mission was cancelled by NASA that day - "Resource Prospector".
At the same time, they spoke about their commitment to Space Policy Directive 1 and SLS/Orion/Artemis. Bridenstein says, "Excited to get to work on our plan to sustainably return America to the surface of the Moon".
Hey, I do not personally like Bridenstein - but what you said is simply not true.
They found out the moon wasn't made of green cheese so we haven't been back .....behold the power of cheese.
so we can't get back to the moon but we can keep sending all kinds of shit to Mars , and every time we are "scheduled' to go back, the date gets pushed back 6 more years. AAHHHH I see what you did there. Its easier to pretend to send robots VS pretend to send humans lol
Let’s take all this waste of money help homeless in California provide better health insurance and balance budgets
How about we send all the people that voted the Democrats in California into office to the moon?
the Toll was to high between earth and space
if you sent people to the moon way back in the day ... and found aliens living there.... your astronauts saw it... you had them sign NDA's ... and had a hellova time in covering the whole shit up.... but one of them still spilled the beans...would you want to deal with that again? in today's internet and social media society?
I dont think so....
another thing to consider is they keep talking about mars INSTEAD... which is even further ? but they dont want to talk about the moon ? or say that we'll go back to the moon... then after a few years state all the reasons (expenses) why they cancelled it ..... but still keep mentioning that they wanna go to mars instead.....
Earth is not a spinning ball! LIARS !!
Because they LIeD in the first place ! They have NEVER gone to the moon! The moon is a light! Freaking devils!
All I saw was a bunch of empty shuttle bays with engineers stuffin our money in their pockets
They never made it to the moon JFK was going to tell the truth so they assassinated him
Because they never went to the moon.
We should be able to send unmanned missions to the moon to see if we could keep mice or some other small animals alive there for a long term.
No Swiss cheese there.
The problem with moon visits is the dust it gets everywhere and is very radio active causing eye irritation fatigue and it's somthing they cant deal with.
They neve be what thebreatbyr