What was the point of going to the moon?

[Anonymous]

What was the point of going to the moon?

Was anyone against it ?
for some reason the more I learn about it the more I am against it

[Anonymous]

Beat the Russians politically and in tech.

According to JFK: "We do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard." Imagine the United States, but every guy has way higher testosterone. That was literally the case.

[Anonymous]

No clue. I guess we will find out if we ever go there!

[Anonymous]

It was the Cold War. What do you think? I don’t think there’s much difference today except now the media focuses on the mining resources (eg, helium).

[Anonymous]

Because we prefer to funnel money to the military industrial complex (the same contractors service NASA and the Pentagon) rather than domestic infrastructure or healthcare or education

[Anonymous]

Beating the Russians.

I think many were against it for a variety of reasons. The space program was enormously expensive, and began when the US was legally a racially segregated country, with all that that implied. Many resented tax dollars and effort being used by white men to score points with no clear benefits— while inequalities that were built into this country’s founding and development persisted.

Some of us look longingly at countries with universal healthcare and low cost college tuition— often countries that benefitted from US dollars and expertise post-WWll. Imagine if, instead, the money and minds focused on showing up the Russians had been focused on domestic issues. That said, there have been many technological benefits from the program, but the point seems to have been a dick waving contest between white men — which was better than another war.

[Anonymous]

There was a very vocal, widespread bipartisan opposition to the moon shot; this group called the effort the “moondoggle”

[Anonymous]

Heavens OP. Go back to school and turn off Fox News.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a very vocal, widespread bipartisan opposition to the moon shot; this group called the effort the “moondoggle”

The “moondoggle” part may not be true ( but it should be); it was used in a present-day article that described the opposition.

[Anonymous]

Honestly I used to think this but I’ve come around. Now I think about it actually as being important to keeping the Cold War cold. The testosterone-y war monger “mine is bigger than yours” bros had a place to point their energy to that wasn’t actually blowing people up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heavens OP. Go back to school and turn off Fox News.

Heaven pp, go back to your therapists office and get your rx.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was a very vocal, widespread bipartisan opposition to the moon shot; this group called the effort the “moondoggle”

SLS, or Senate Launch System.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly I used to think this but I’ve come around. Now I think about it actually as being important to keeping the Cold War cold. The testosterone-y war monger “mine is bigger than yours” bros had a place to point their energy to that wasn’t actually blowing people up.

Great answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What was the point of going to the moon?

Was anyone against it ?
for some reason the more I learn about it the more I am against it

Scientific exploration in every field is the only reason humans are surviving and thriving better than all other species.

[Anonymous]

It was literally the most significant accomplishment in human history. Have you no sense of adventure?