Say What??
Josetta said:
If they really got on the moon in 1969, why can't they fly up there in 2009, 40years later with a sharp spade or hand auger and drill down a few metres like digging a post hole.
BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW TO FLY UP THERE AND GET BACK SAFELY.
They pretended to go to the moon. Have you guys looked at the cars that were about in 1969, with crank handles to start them if the battery was flat.
Why fire a rocket to bomb the moon, when it was alledgedly so easy to fly to the moon in 1969.
Anyone feel like there is a bit of fibbing going on at Nasa Space Headquarters?
They really did get to the moon, and only barely made it back (if you would read more reliable sources that are even outside of NASA). They used up almost too much fuel, and were only "just" able to get back to their ship home. Also, technology and mettalurgy equipment wasn't as advanced it is now to carry extra (and light weight) equipment. Each and every item has specific weight values (watch Apollo 13), and so they were only able to carry "x" amount of equipment, carry back "x" amount of moon material. There are certain specifics that have to be reached to acquire orbit, much less to re-enter Earth's atmosphere.
In 1969, if anyone had "crank handle" cars for dead batteries (btw, batteries don't get "flat", they "die", or go out of power. Tires go flat I believe?), they had those cars as hobbies. You really need a history/reality check on your knowledge and history of vehicles.
And it wasn't that "easy" to fly to the moon (again, watch Apollo 13). Our cell phones and even our iPhones are able to do more calculations and other applications than the computers they had at that time in the Apollo program.
The computers at that time that could do hundreds of applications were as big as rooms and took up loads of energy to cool and use.
You might do well to take preliminary science classes about earth, and what it takes to get out into space, much less get back on land, as well as some history classes about the computer age as well as the technological advancements and time-tables of our auto industry (electronic ignitions were still being improved on at that time).
Even now, it takes a huge amount of math calculations each and every time our shuttle's go into space, calculations that are done by computers now, but were done by slide-rules then. I used to have one for my own high school and college math, and they were a pita to use.