Why havent we been back to the moon since Dec 1972

[Quantum Windbag]

I'm cluless.

I thought the moon landing were a first step towards colonies on themoon.......................

Like was portyared in 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)

Because we needed to spend that money making thousands of nuclear warheads. I thought it was obvious.

Is that why Proxmire wanted to cut NASA funding "to the bone"?

 

[hortysir]

Nothing there.





BTW, I'm still waiting for that flying car I was promised back in middle school

 

[idb]

Nothing there.





BTW, I'm still waiting for that flying car I was promised back in middle school

Oh yeah, I'm with you!
When do we get this?

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

I thought the moon landings had some scientific purpose and would be a stepping-stone- not some cold-war publicity stunt to show up the Soviets.

Combining both posts; yes, it was a political move, in a way, but within the rank and file it was the logical first/next step in answer to Sputnik. It was also the most wonderful thing we could have done. A professional "welfare" for technology whereby we could have surely done worse.

What has enraged me over all these years we did Apollo 17, and stopped. We simply stopped. Had budgeting went on, instead of such waste as Viet Nam, we all would be messaging from a base on the Moon and one on Mars by now.

Terrible waste. Sad, really.

Robert

Be honest here, tell me what you, as a NASA employee, a space enthusiast, and a scientist, think of William Proxmire.

He isnt a scientist hes a painter.

You aint a rocket scientist nor an astrophysicist .

Site Contents: About the Artist

Robert A.M. Stephens is a professional artist, painting full time since May of 1977. Winning an art scholarship at age 14 sent him to the University California at Davis.There he was told he would never be an artist since he preferred to paint realistically. He agreed with their dissent since he hated the abstract, subjective creations popular during that period of the mid 60's, thus surrendering the scholarship. From that point he was determined to become a professional artist and decided to teach himself somehow. It took him 11 more years before he could launch his career as an easel painter and fine artist in plein-aire works professionally.

A 5 time Smithsonian (SITES) alumni in conjunction with NASA, and with work in collections, museums, and academies worldwide, he has proved UCD's art department they may have been a little hasty.

The image archive at this site is a collection both digital and oil on canvas/panel, that have been executed and sold or is for sale in current inventory as indicated in each image page. The artist is currently represented by the Hanson Trust, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA, USA. The Agent Provocateur can be reached at: [email protected] or,

http://web.archive.org/web/20040803041547/http://www.behold-the-rage.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20041231111327/http://www.behold-the-rage.com/index.html
Internet Archive Wayback Machine

http://www.usmessageboard.com/3342869-post93.html

Yikes indeed.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Nothing there.





BTW, I'm still waiting for that flying car I was promised back in middle school

You want a flying car?

xkcd: Flying Cars

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Combining both posts; yes, it was a political move, in a way, but within the rank and file it was the logical first/next step in answer to Sputnik. It was also the most wonderful thing we could have done. A professional "welfare" for technology whereby we could have surely done worse.

What has enraged me over all these years we did Apollo 17, and stopped. We simply stopped. Had budgeting went on, instead of such waste as Viet Nam, we all would be messaging from a base on the Moon and one on Mars by now.

Terrible waste. Sad, really.

Robert

Be honest here, tell me what you, as a NASA employee, a space enthusiast, and a scientist, think of William Proxmire.

He isnt a scientist hes a painter.

You aint a rocket scientist nor an astrophysicist .

Site Contents: About the Artist

Robert A.M. Stephens is a professional artist, painting full time since May of 1977. Winning an art scholarship at age 14 sent him to the University California at Davis.There he was told he would never be an artist since he preferred to paint realistically. He agreed with their dissent since he hated the abstract, subjective creations popular during that period of the mid 60's, thus surrendering the scholarship. From that point he was determined to become a professional artist and decided to teach himself somehow. It took him 11 more years before he could launch his career as an easel painter and fine artist in plein-aire works professionally.

A 5 time Smithsonian (SITES) alumni in conjunction with NASA, and with work in collections, museums, and academies worldwide, he has proved UCD's art department they may have been a little hasty.

The image archive at this site is a collection both digital and oil on canvas/panel, that have been executed and sold or is for sale in current inventory as indicated in each image page. The artist is currently represented by the Hanson Trust, Inc., Gig Harbor, WA, USA. The Agent Provocateur can be reached at: [email protected] or,

http://web.archive.org/web/20040803041547/http://www.behold-the-rage.com/
http://web.archive.org/web/20041231111327/http://www.behold-the-rage.com/index.html
Internet Archive Wayback Machine

http://www.usmessageboard.com/3342869-post93.html

Yikes indeed.

My mistake, thank you for correcting me.

 

[Robert_Stephens]

I thought the moon landings had some scientific purpose and would be a stepping-stone- not some cold-war publicity stunt to show up the Soviets.

Combining both posts; yes, it was a political move, in a way, but within the rank and file it was the logical first/next step in answer to Sputnik. It was also the most wonderful thing we could have done. A professional "welfare" for technology whereby we could have surely done worse.

What has enraged me over all these years we did Apollo 17, and stopped. We simply stopped. Had budgeting went on, instead of such waste as Viet Nam, we all would be messaging from a base on the Moon and one on Mars by now.

Terrible waste. Sad, really.

Robert

Be honest here, tell me what you, as a NASA employee, a space enthusiast, and a scientist, think of William Proxmire.

The fail of Proxmire and others like him, he lost the vision. And hawked out our world then. Sad.

Robert

 

[PoliticalChic]

I'm cluless.

I thought the moon landing were a first step towards colonies on themoon.......................

Like was portyared in 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)

Haven't you seen the price of gas???