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Originally Posted by tom_bz
There are to many variables that we don't know about. I know you can use that idea of unknown variables against humans landing on the moon, but that is why it is so amazing and why we have not gone back because we try to and problems came up and stopped us. We need more then a motive to make it true.
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The real reason we haven't been back? According to Jack Schmitt: Politics.
We were just getting good at the lunar missions. The hardware bugs were smoothing out and non-equatorial landings were being perfected. But the moon missions were advertised as an "us vs. them" project rather than a purely scientific one. After we got there first, the public facination for the project evaporated. Except for Apollo 13, public interest waned. To the untrained John Q. Public, when the nation spent a goodly chunk of public money and he only sees (to him anyway) a pile of rocks, assorted samples, and some great photography as the result, the aura wears off quickly. He didn't understand that the rewards of the lunar program wouldn't be realized until years later.