Why didn NASA send another rocket to moon if they could send one years ago?
Because Congress won’t fund it. Originally, the lunar missions were suspended temporarily because it was hoped the Space Shuttle would make it cheaper to launch lunar missions–so they decided to wait till the Shuttle was completed. However, the Shuttle had major problems–and was never fully funded. Then, in the 1990s, NASA tried to develop advanced spacecraft. However, when the Republicanstook control ofCongress in 1994, they canceled evry advanced research project on manned spaceflight–and refused to fund any for the 12 years they controlled Congress. The current “replacement “vehicle is really just reconfigured technology from the Shuttle program. The “return to the moon program” was also never funded by the GOP Congress. So far, the new Congress hasn’t gotten to the point of addressing the space program–whe’ll just haveto wait and see what they do.
