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Why has no one walked on the moon since 1972?

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Why has no one walked on the moon since 1972?

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The only way it would become “common” to go to the Moon would be if it held some value that outweighed the cost of going there. Some tout He3 mining as one such possibility or Spaceship construction site for inter-solar travel, maybe mining the moon for some/most of the construction materials. The reason we haven’t gone again is because it is simply very costly to go up into space ($6000 per litre of water for example) and uneconomical when combined with the added cost of going to the moon. Long term stay on the moon (more than a few days) would also sky rocket costs and again need a very good reason to do so.

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I think it’s very ignorant to state something like “been there done that etc…” when talking about supposedly going to the moon. As far as not finding anything of value, the 6 expeditions didn’t really do much except take some soil samples and a few rocks. Of course this looked good for the cameras filming to show the world, but honestly not enough research was conducted at the time. Here it is over 20 years later. We now have several space shuttles and the most advanced computers to date. It’s hard to believe that with each new improvement to telescopes, and electron-microscopes, not to mention dating processes the moon has absolutely no value to us scientifically. In addition 1970’s technology did not allow us to study the shaded side. We left no permenant scientific instrumentation to gather any data, whether it be worthless or invaluable. We just planted a flag and took some rocks. I’m not saying we didn’t go, as many seem to believe, but I’m no saying we did either. I just think

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