Almost forty years ago, man landed on the Moon for the first time and almost forty years later, since then, man has not been on the Moon again. Now the question arises: should man make an effort to return to the Moon to discover new things with our new technology and verify what we have discovered during our absence? Or it's not worth it and is just a waste of money. With NASA wanting to go to the Moon in 2020, an answer needs to be given. It doesn't seem worth sending a crewed mission to the Moon in the near future, not until we have some plans in order. Only thirty-eight years have passed. In the entire realm of space-time, anything less than one hundred years is not even the blink of an eye in the span of time, and thirty-eight years is half that. Not much has changed in that time. Not even the footprints left by the astronauts have disappeared because there is no wind. We cannot expect new life to develop, nor for anything to change geographically that we cannot observe from down here on earth. Any mission to the Moon would just be a waste of taxpayer money, since NASA is funded by the government. It would simply be a new opportunity to send a new group of expensively trained astronauts to the Moon, so that this current generation has something important to take with them into their lives that they can talk about for years to come. It's not a bad program at all. There are many things that the program has integrated from their research that people now use on a daily basis. Many people play golf and the dimple design on golf balls comes from NASA (Gauthier). With the growing number of memory foam mattresses being sold, this is another way NASA has entered the lives of American citizens. Our space... at the center of the paper... ice, 31 October 2008 Network. 21 February 2010. .Gauthier, Joseph. "Should NASA return to the Moon? |." Young Americans for Freedom. 05 February 2010. Web. 21 February 2010. .Cain, Frasher. "How long is a day on the Moon?" Universe today. 31 October 2008. Web. 22 February 2010. .Gunn, Alastair. "Why we shouldn't go back to the Moon | COSMOS magazine." COSMOS Magazine | The science of everything. Network. February 22, 2010. "NASA's Project M puts scientists' avatars on the Moon - Project M - Gizmodo." Gizmodo, the gadget guide. Jesus Diaz, 25 February 2010. Web. 04 March. 2010. .