Why haven’t we had a manned moon mission since 1972
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Getting onto the moon, and then getting off the moon again, is really *really* expensive. That’s a lot of fuel you have to take up, land width, and blast off from the moon again. It’s a long way to travel with no rescue plan if something goes wrong without basically sending another moon missing up to space, and for what? We’ve been to the moon. We know what’s there. We brought back samples.
There isn’t a strong reason to do it beyond “it’s cool” right now. Been there, done that, brought back the rocks. If we need more, we can send robots to do the work. Putting humans at risk isn’t worth their lives at this point.
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