And why on earth (or in heaven) would America want to send people back to the moon anyway?
It was tasked by former President George W Bush of taking the US back to the Moon by 2020.
President Obama has cut back on plans for Orion, which was going to go back to the moon and then on to Mars.
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It's hard to see any particular reason or purpose in going back to the moon or indeed sending people into space at all.
It's a tremendous step, the first of many as we get into exploration of the Solar System, back to the Moon and on to Mars.
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The intention was to give the US a crew-carrier and rocket technology that could go beyond low-Earth orbit to more distant targets, back to the Moon and further.
It may be good to go back to the moon, but if you're going there for resources there are potentially far richer reserves on NEOs and they're easier to get to.
Like the Golden Spike company, which aims to take people back to the moon, Inspiration Mars will be relying on current technology to build their mission rather than working to develop anything new.
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Last December, one of the last men on the Moon, Harrison Schmitt, told BBC News that he believed Nasa and other government run space agencies were "too inefficient" to be able to send astronauts back to the Moon.
The Obama Administration has canceled plans it inherited to send astronauts back to the Moon, the Space Shuttle is about to retire, and the only near-term human space flight initiative on the books is a handout to rich California businessmen to update old technology.
"The most exciting thing I saw as a child was this vision of von Braun going to the back of the Moon, " he explains to BBC News Online, as he relaxes in his plus-fours and diamond socks in preparation for a round of golf.
She stiffened and moved away from me, but I turned up the music and we settled back to drive and watch the moon come up.
We should bring back manned flights to the moon, with the ultimate goal of someday going to Mars.
Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.
The back-to-back roundhouse punches were jaw-dropping, the kind of blue-moon-eclipse results you refresh your cellphone to confirm.
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Proof: the fake plastic butt attached to the back of a pair of shorts he wore and used to moon a helicopter before crossing the starting line.
"We're ready to put them to work and get ready to put bootprints back on the moon, " says Glenn Lutz, NASA's project manager for Extravehicular Activity Systems at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
The television pictures on board were designed to begin operating when the rocket came within 2, 500 miles (4, 023km) of the lunar surface - 40 minutes before impact - and then send an image of the Moon back to Earth every 13 seconds.
His boss there, Bruce Rioch, thought so highly of the towering centre-back, that he said if he was going to the moon and could only take one man with him, then Tony Mowbray would be the man he would want by his side.
"Once the reactors are removed, to put the ship back in any shape to where it still resembles a ship the cost would be over the moon, " said Maus.
That way they can rationalize Amazon's going to the moon and back in one day.
The idea that there might be water or, rather, ice on the moon goes back to 1961.
By now, McDonald's has served 70 billion hamburgers, enough to reach to the moon and back 17 times over.
Eight years and eight weeks later, Apollo 11 completed the job, flying to the moon and back in July 1969.
When the Apollo 13 spaceship blew up 200, 000 miles from Earth, astronauts used the moon's gravity to slingshot the capsule back home.
Yet the Apollo program, apart from a training fire that killed three in 1967, somehow got men safely to the moon and back seven times.
The modular tin cans that took us to the moon and back, and have kept us in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) ever since, will eventually be superceded by full-scale space cities.
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Now the company will design a vehicle to help Golden Spike achieve its goal of establishing routine commercial transportation of people to the moon and back by the end of the decade.
In the dying stages of the match, Craig pulled the ball back from close range and Moon sent it over the line to ensure victory for the visitors.
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