the moon? Sorry, it's cancelled.

[joggerjayne]

Obama has thrown in the towel.

The President has realised that with the ...

knowledge

computers

resources

technology

.. availiable to the most advanced nation on the planet ...

It will STILL not be feasible to put a man on the Moon in the next 10 years.



Sorry, I mean "back" on the Moon ... of course.

[snags]

or make Great Britain good at winter sports?

[joggerjayne]

He doesn't need to help Knoxy. Senator Clinton is on to it.

And Donald Trump who siad, on his website, that the Prosecutor was the real criminal ... which has been proved correct.

snags .. we had Eddie the Eagle !

[jake-the-peg]

Why should he want to spend

all that

money

manpower

effort

in putting humans on that sterile rock?

[another-view]

Exactly. We've been there. Nothing of interest/value there. Why would you want to go back?

[R1Geezer]

It is easily feasable, it's been done 6 times,conspracy theories debunked to order, anything you like JJ. Anyway Obama has decided that it's too much dosh to spend for little gain, not a feasability issue at all.

[jake-the-peg]

The one thing that would justify further manned space flight would be a robotic discovery of genuine fossils on Mars.

Until that happen's there's just no real benefit that i can see. - Yes there are a few people going on about Helium-3 on the moon but the concentrations are so small it's ludicrous

[jno]

yes, I think basically you missed out 'money'. It can be done but it's far too expensive in relation to any possible benefits from it. (The benefit from getting Armstrong there was beating the Soviet Union - if Putin suddenly announces a plan to go back there, Obama may yet change his mind.)

[beso]

Manned missions are ridiculously expensive and limit the time and potential targets of any mission.

For the same cost we can send robotic equipment to dozens of places. The Mars rovers returned a phenomenal amout of data from Mars over four years at a tiny fraction of the cost of a short manned trip to the moon.

[Rev Sermon]

I don't think it's so much a case of feasibility as priority.

For some unfathomable reason he has these strange ideas that keeping people employed, fed and in good health is more important than making grandiose gestures to demonstrate how wonderful the USA is.