Why didn't the US return to the moon???

TL;DR.

Don't listen to what other members are saying. They are VERY misinformed. The real reason is because there are an ancient race of gigantic bio-machine like humanoid creatures who are hiding on the dark side of it hoping that a transporter can be built that will teleport their entire race (and planet) to earth in order to begin a hostile take over. But don't worry, I got a yellow 2010 Camaro SS with black racing stripes that means to put an end to this nonsense once and for all...

Money.



This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.

Money,lack of desire to continue lunar exploration, and the risk involved in the manned-program were the main reasons.

There were no life-forms on the Moon that scared us away.

No mysterious reason, the Apollo programs where very VERY expensive. Billions of dollars back when the US Debt wasn't measured in double digit trillions, and when the military was funding an army to fight a possible WW3. After the first couple landings, people lost interest, which means there congressmen who wanted to get re-elected lost interest, which means NASA lost menu. By the time Apollo 17 was even ready was ready to go NASA's budget had been cut to shreds. They could have built another Saturn 5, if they literally did NOTHING ELSE. Thats the reason NASA has focused on near earth orbit maned missions since the 70's and only unmanned probes for anything further out.

That's also the reason that the Hubbles orbit is the furthest from Earth the space shuttle was able to go, it was just to damn expensive to develop anything that could go further. Hell, NASA tried to develop another "Saturn 5ish" rocket these passed few years and look what happened, they lost all there funding for it and it never got off the ground (pun saddly intended).

The most powerful rocket since the Saturn 5 is an order of magnitude less powerful, and being developed on the cheap (read without a lot of government oversight but with oodles of open source NASA data) by a civilian company, and the only reason that's even gotten started is because a ambitious billionaire felt like doing it.

Anyway, long story short, Moon missions ended because they where expensive, and once the aww wore off no one really wanted to pay billions of bucks for rocks and (admittedly cool) footage of said rocks.

this Cosmic_Casey fella is a great comedian. I was LMAO reading his posts. Hell he should've become a comedian. I'd put him next to Eddie Izzard.

So called Moon landing was all haux

reason:

the americans captured hitler first during world war 2 and stalin and the russians want hitler reallyROFLMAOOMGZbad. so the 2 superpowers made a "deal" by allowing the americans to be the first to "land on the moon" by assisting them and giving them all the data accumulated during gagarins` and the other space flight mission the russians did earlier. in return hitler was turned over to stalin where he was tortured night and day until his death, with the signed contract that the "deal" never took place.....