The interest of returning to the Moon

There are many mysteries on the moon, its magnetic anomalies, its minerals, its rare earthquakes and even earthquakes, although much weaker than those on Earth, they do not exceed 5.5 on the Richter scale and there are also smaller quantities due to that the crust of the moon is much thicker than the Earth's, the Moon is colder inside than the Earth is, but they are rare earthquakes because they last much longer than those of the Earth, they can last half an hour or even longer. .

In addition, there is talk that the moon is shrinking, they have calculated that it has shrunk by about 50 meters in the last hundreds of millions of years, but it is a process that all planets suffer, as they cool they shrink, including the Earth.

The moon has 37.7 million square km, which is why it is said to be the new continent that humanity has to expand, to explore and exploit 37.7 million square km, that is more than double the surface of South America. The moon is also a place with many resources.

All nations that want to develop their technological potential are interested in sending ships to the moon, we are seeing ships from Japan, Israel, South Korea, China, the United States, which a private company has also just sent another ship after having failed the previous one.

What is the interest, to begin with, it must be clarified that today there is nothing on the moon that can pay for a trip to it nor, even if we find gold, that could be collected by hand, not even by filling the ship with pieces With gold we could pay all the expense of the launch, the trip, the landing, the launch from the moon and the return to Earth and the maintenance of our vital system to reach it, there would not be enough resources to be able to pay for all that.

All this is because we are in a very intense first stage in a very special first stage, something that did not happen from the 60s to the mid-70s, we are in a first stage that is very different from that of the 60s and 70s of the space race, because it is based on another type of criteria, in that phase of the 60s and 70s in the first race for the moon we have a brutal competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, between two political, ideological, moral economic models complete opposites that were in competition.

Since then there was a void, what happened, why did they stop going to the moon, why was there such an intense race when there was that fight between the United States and the Soviet Union and then they stopped going to the moon and now it's back again the interest in a frenetic activity of commanding ships, in that first one there was a completely different interest from the current one, what was happening was a competition and a real competition, it was also a question of political strategy.

The space race of the 60s and 70s can be summarized in the phrase that President Kennedy said or rather what was missing from that phrase, Kennedy's famous phrase was “we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the rest.” not because they are easy goals but because they are difficult" and he failed to say that the fundamental reason was that the Soviets could arrive first and that is that when Kennedy made that speech about the moon the Soviets were ahead of the space race and were also preparing a moon rocket.

The two blocs competed in all fields, the military, the ideological, the economic and of course in the Technological field, demonstrating that one was technologically superior and that one could send humans to the moon was a way of telling everyone that their policy was the better and that they could give more prosperity to their people, and that had a huge impact on Nations with democratic systems since people would vote for that political party that represented the superior side, to which they could give Superior technology and a better life .

And in Nations without democratic systems, the population could rise up against their governments if they were not in line with the superior side, since they believed that even if they were false, that in this way they could get a better system of government that would govern them and It would also give them a better quality of life, because in the 20th century, perhaps for the first time in the history of humanity, there was a clear idea that technology provided a higher quality of life, which is why reaching the moon was a crucial challenge.

If the Soviet Union reached it first, it demonstrated that it had the best technology and therefore could offer, even if it were not true, the best quality of life to those who followed its ideas, it was a brutal, enormous, historic act of propaganda. As you can imagine, reaching the moon became a vital issue, as I say, of propaganda at a level never seen before in history.

and the two superpowers tried with all available means to get a human there, but once the objective of demonstrating who had the technological superiority was fulfilled, interest in the moon declined and the culmination was the economic crisis and the end of the Soviet Union in 199, the rest is history.

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