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Originally Posted by goof2
By that logic we will never send anyone again anyway since it has already been 40 years since we last sent someone.
Taking the long view is looking at what going to the moon now is going to accomplish toward forwarding the next logical step, going to mars. I don't see how going to the moon now advances that at all. Add in the additional estimate of $3 billion per year it will require, multiply it by whatever number you want because estimates for space programs are always horrendously wrong, and I don't see the value.
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At this point I really don't think that America will ever set foot on the moon again because NASA is given chump change, and their budget is likely to only go down from here, as it has in the past. Like always, people are saying that the money is better spent "at home." It doesn't matter if the economy is good or bad; they parrot the same words.
So few people see the value, but space has always paid off in the past. Unless you're Grizzly Adams, you don't go a single day without being touched by the technologies that have come out of the space programme.