[Names Ash Housewares]

There is so much left do do on the moon. Practice for Mars. Radio astronomy on the far side. Learning how to live in space colonies. Extracting water and air from the soil. Learning to build shelters. Exploring our closest neighbor that we have scarcely trod on at all.

Watch "From the Earth to the Moon" Episode about Apollo 15 and Professor Lee Silver.

[crail]

There is so much to do other than the moon. The enormous amounts of cash it will take to send men to the moon will require cuts to NASA's already thin science budget. This fixation with "it's not really done until a man does it" kills the science. Probes can already do it, and do it better. Robots explore farther. They return more exciting results, more scientifically relevant results, results from exciting (non lunar) places people will never be able to go. If we go ahead with a project as expensive as photo shoots of men on the moon, these *real* science projects will be cut.