Is it worth going back to the Moon?

10:21 AM Friday Jul 17, 2009

Photo / Geoff Walker

The men from Apollo 11 might have spent only 21/2 hours outside the lunar module, and less than a day in all on the Moon's surface. But in that short space of time Neil Armstrong had joined - some would say even eclipsed - Columbus, Amundsen, Lindbergh, and the rest, in the pantheon of explorers whose exploits changed history.

Is it worth going back to the Moon? Here is the latest selection of Your Views:

SunnyHB (Napier) | 10:44AM Friday, 17 Jul 2009

To go back to the moon there would need to be benefits or some kinda of payback identified to the US tax payer who funds NASA (after all we are still in a reccession). Else it is just a waste of money. Infact the main reason they went the first time was just because of a race with the Russians. But to what end? Bragging rights?

Albannach, Scotland (United Kingdom) | 10:52AM Friday, 17 Jul 2009

There are many of us in the UK who have the same argument about Australia.

RayPat (New Zealand) | 11:07AM Friday, 17 Jul 2009

Furious George (Hamilton) you made my day - burst out laughing at my desk, what a crack up! Good on you bud.