EzraS wrote:
It seems the evidence being presented that it was not a hoax is because not enough people called it a hoax at the time. So apparently if a hoax is successful then it can not be a hoax.
To those who were kids when it took place, can you imagine being told in 1972 that going to the moon from that point forward would be infeasible all the way up to 2020?
That the only manned space action an adult born in the year 2000 would see is shuttles simply orbiting the earth?
Even though over 100 space shuttles have been launched, going to the moon after 1972 is basically an impossibility.
And apparently the only reason why no one has been able to get to the moon since 1972 is... it is just too darn expensive.
Seems just a tad fishy.
Exactly why is it "fishy"?
"Unfeasible" is not the same thing as "impossible".
It was a publicity stunt for the cold war. But besides that there was no profit in it beside the scientific value of the moon rocks they brought back.
There is no oil on the moon. And even if the moon were is a rich in oil as the Persian Gulf we cant buld pipelines or oil tankers capable of shipping it here. So the end was met: PR. So after the PR point had been made the will of the tax payer to fund further moonshots evaporated.
Your 100 space shuttle voyages only cost about five percent as much as any of the Apollo missions relative to the economy. But they produce more scientific return on investment than would subsequent Apollo missions.
We haven't built another Sistine Chapel in five hundred years either. Its "possible" to make a second one. But it isn't feasible. Like Apollo eleven the Sistine Chapel was a cultural endeavor that produced no profit beyond the purely aesthetic and the ideological.