In the recent past, we have heard of rovers on Mars, we have heard of men and women on International Space Station (ISS) but why hasn’t man been sent on moon since December 7, 1972. Well, after a little googling and some time spent on Yahoo Answers I had available with me almost all the answers.
In total twelve people have landed on the Moon. Out of the 20 Apollo Missions only 17 made it while the last three were cancelled to cut costs. The main reason to stop manned moon missions was that the projects used to cost in multi billions and used to fetch nothing but dust from the moon, and of course an evening walk for the astronauts, which other astronauts had already brought before. In comparison to the money spent the information gained by scientists about moon used to see only a minute increment.
Richard Nixon, the then US President approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program, a futurist program which would enable NASA to explore the space beyond their limit at that time. Under the Nixon administration, however, NASA's budget declined, NASA’s Administrator was drawing up ambitious plans for the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon by the end of the 1970s and the launch of a manned expedition to Mars as early as 1981. Nixon, however, rejected this proposal.
Also, the reason why the USA hurried to get on Moon was to take a clear lead ahead of USSR in their Cold War. Once they became the invincible occupiers of Moon later moon missions were not required.
In total twelve people have landed on the Moon. Out of the 20 Apollo Missions only 17 made it while the last three were cancelled to cut costs. The main reason to stop manned moon missions was that the projects used to cost in multi billions and used to fetch nothing but dust from the moon, and of course an evening walk for the astronauts, which other astronauts had already brought before. In comparison to the money spent the information gained by scientists about moon used to see only a minute increment.
Richard Nixon, the then US President approved the development of NASA's Space Shuttle program, a futurist program which would enable NASA to explore the space beyond their limit at that time. Under the Nixon administration, however, NASA's budget declined, NASA’s Administrator was drawing up ambitious plans for the establishment of a permanent base on the Moon by the end of the 1970s and the launch of a manned expedition to Mars as early as 1981. Nixon, however, rejected this proposal.
Also, the reason why the USA hurried to get on Moon was to take a clear lead ahead of USSR in their Cold War. Once they became the invincible occupiers of Moon later moon missions were not required.
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