Why is China targeting the moon -- and should NASA as well?

[CaseyJones]

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/12/06/why-is-china-targeting-moon-and-should-nasa-as-well/

Americans from Buzz Aldrin to president Barack Obama say it’s a waste of time to put men back on the moon -- so why are foreign countries so eager to take that one small step?

While several private American companies are planning robotic missions to the moon, China launched a man-sized robotic scout to the moon on Monday. The country’s recent manned missions and efforts to build a new space base suggest a future manned mission to the moon, though why is an open question. Speculation has run from the desire to build a military missile base -- a Death Star of sorts -- to national pride to simple economics.

The answer may be far simpler: The moon is “easy” to get to.

 

[eduardo89]

I think we should ask republican guy.

 

[tangent4ronpaul]

I'd say national pride and learning. Why not?

Besides, some of the stuff we left up there would fetch BIG bucks on E-Bay...

-t

 

[RickyJ]

Men back on the moon? Who says men ever went there? NASA? The guys who said they lost the original high definition video footage of the astronauts supposedly on the moon and then when they were called on that ridiculous explanation then said that they copied over them to "save money." LOL! I will believe nothing NASA says about anything, they lie too much! Buzz Aldrin is right, it is a waste of time and money because they don't even have the technology today to get a man to the moon alive and back again, much less in 1969.

 

[CaseyJones]

Men back on the moon? Who says men ever went there? NASA? The guys who said they lost the original high definition video footage of the astronauts supposedly on the moon and then when they were called on that ridiculous explanation then said that they copied over them to "save money." LOL! I will believe nothing NASA says about anything, they lie too much! Buzz Aldrin is right, it is a waste of time and money because they don't even have the technology today to get a man to the moon alive and back again, much less in 1969.

 

[Ronin Truth]

Eleven Things That NASA Discovered About The Moon That You Never Knew


From The Anti-Gravity HandbookCompiled By
D. Hatcher Childress
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"It seems much easier to explain the nonexistence of the moon than its existence."​

NASA Scientist Dr. Robin Brett


http://home1.gte.net/poofalow/moon11.htm​