FLY TO MARS FOR A MONTH HAVE MONEY: Why NASA never returned to the moon?

NASA after a series of Apollo missions gave up on sending people to the moon

By 1966 space race reached its climax. NASA has received the largest budget in history - $ 5.933 billion (about 43 billion dollars today), has successfully completed project Gemini, and launched a more serious preparation for the Apollo missions.From that moment on, support for space programs began to fall, and is despite a successful landing on the moon in July 1969 there was a big turnaround in the space policy of the United States.Just a year after Apollo 11 "won" the moon, NASA had to contend with large holes in its budget, but managed to send five more missions to the Moon (Apollo 13, failed to put down due to technical problems).

Revived are plans to build a space station, and in 1970 it was announced that Apollo 20 be canceled in favor of a new project - Skylab.2 September 1970, the agency announced last three Apollo missions: Apollo 15, 16 and 17, but at that time had to deal with major political pressures. The White House is already next year want to completely cancel the Apollo program after 15 missions, but NASA still won that this does not happen.

Eugene Cernan on 14 December 1972 became the last man to walk on the lunar surface and so it has remained to this day.

The budget that NASA had before 1966 was no longer viable, especially when the United States faced with large oil crisis in 1973, which has completely changed the priorities of the nation. I continue to be invested in space programs, but with a much more limited than in previous years.This change has affected it to explore the moon, and the planets of the solar system be postponed until further notice, and attention is focused on the space shuttle program.Until recently the US operations in space were fully focused on the lower Earth orbit and send a probe to another planet, a NASA mission in recent years to prove, such as the mission of searching for water on Mars, and the mission of Hubble, which is trying to find out what was going on in the universe before the 'big bang'.NASA prepares to send a human mission to Mars by 2030. But nobody told us that the mission to Mars cheaper than those on the moon, or in the meantime space travel cheaper.

• 27 Mar, 2016
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