Think about it for a second.
Your telling me that we could land on the moon back in 1969 but no country (including the US ever wanted to try it again with newer technology?)
Despite the fact that the entire world was in a space race, they all just gave up after the US did it?
Yeah, Ok.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_landing#Manned_Moon_landings
A total of 382 kilograms (842 lb) of Moon rocks and Moon dust were collected during the Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 and 17 missions of the Apollo program.[1] Some 10 kg (22 lb) of the Moon rocks have been destroyed during hundreds of experiments performed by both NASA researchers and planetary scientists at research institutions unaffiliated with NASA.
The presence of retroreflectors (mirrors used as targets for Earth-based tracking lasers) from the Lunar laser ranging experiment (Laser Ranging RetroReflector; LRRR) left on the Moon is evidence of a landing.[5][6][7]
Quoting from James Hansen's biography of Neil Armstrong (First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstrong):
For those few misguided souls who still cling to the belief that the Moon landings never happened, examination of the results of five decades of LRRR experiments should evidence how delusional their rejection of the Moon landing really is
Long-exposure photos were taken with a special far-ultraviolet camera by Apollo 16 on April 21, 1972 from the surface of the Moon. Some of these photos show the Earth with stars from the Capricornus and Aquarius constellations in the background. The joint Belgian/British/Dutch satellite TD-1 later scanned the sky for stars that are bright in UV light. The TD-1 data obtained with the shortest passband is a close match for the Apollo 16 photographs
Oh well, if it's in Wikipedia!![]()
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy