I might have turned into a curmudgeon, but exactly why are we spending billions of dollars that we do not have just to go to the moon? So what if we map its surface? Yahoo! And who is going to look at the pictures in a few years? (How often do we look at the thousands of pictures we take with our phones?) And I do not want anything coming back from the moon. Nothing. Who knows what effect it could have on the earth and its inhabitants?
Trips to the moon are nothing more than a “look and see what I did!” endeavor. Yes, certain things have been invented to meet the challenge, but they could have been invented without spending billions of dollars on essentially-worthless space trips.
Color me skeptical and cynical.
Guess your out of luck on moon rocks coming back already happen. Nothing happen to us when they did.