My brother's take on the moon landing made me stop and think

We were at a family cookout last weekend and he said, 'You know, the real conspiracy isn't if we went, it's why we never went back after 1972.' He pointed out that we went from zero to landing in under a decade, then just stopped for 50 years. He's not a flat earther, he's an engineer, so it hit different. It made me wonder if the debate is stuck on the wrong question. Has anyone else had a chat that flipped a common theory on its head like that?

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gray_gibson7d ago

What about the insane cost and risk though? The Apollo program was like 4% of the federal budget at its peak, which is wild. We basically proved the point and then moved the money to other stuff like the shuttle and now private companies.

olivia5737d ago

Honestly I heard a podcast that said the moon rocks we brought back told scientists most of what they needed from those early trips. So the big, expensive push wasn't needed anymore once we got the samples and beat the Soviets. Tbh it became more about keeping a space station running low in orbit instead.