No-one wants it. You get nothing from it.
As soon as going to the Moon becomes something advantageous, we'll start to do it all the time.
As it is, going there now gets us nothing. it is very simple logic and a very good reason. There are no advances to be made. All the advances we can make right now are to be done in close orbit.
Originally posted by Ushgarak
That;'s basically the answer. Space is so amaingly barren- the return on it is about zero. it;s not worth the expense or the tisk. We went, fairly much, to prove that we copuld, and maybe in the vague hope that something amazing could be found. Nothing amazing was found, and now we've done it. We've damn nearly lost people doing it and it costs billions that we need to, say, fight disease or hunger.Until rtechnology improves to the point where we can do this sort of thing more casually, we ain't going again.
yeh cos we are really fighting hunger arnt we. more like we are spending trilliosn on weapons to blow the **** out of imaginary enemys.
I very much doubt you will find the NASA budget ever came at the expoense of the military's.
Fact of the matter is, though, that you get solid and visible results from weapons, whereas you get bugger all from going to the Moon. And it is a far more acceptable way to both politicians and people of spending money.