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It's been one of the more divisive issues in the space and political communities: Should we go back to the moon? Some say, "Why bother? We've been there. It's nothing new to us." Some passionately believe we should be working on a return before even thinking of heading out further.

The only reason the United States went in the first place was to beat our rivals. We sent crews mostly made up of test pilots and engineers, which made sense, as these were, in essence, test flights. Just before the Apollo program ended we finally sent one scientist, an acclaimed geologist named Harrison Schmitt who was the very first scientist-astronaut selected and instrumental in directing previous moonwalkers to finding the precious samples they brought back for study. His 22 hours and 4 minutes walking on the moon are the entirety of any scientist standing on a body other than our Earth.

Think about it, less than one Earth day has been spent out and about by a geologist on the moon. No other scientific field has gotten to send a representative there. Ever.

Just as chilling: Not one woman has ever beheld the moon from any closer than low Earth orbit, let alone stepped on it's surface. Not one.

Some say we have learned all we can by studying samples brought back by those brave men and data from rovers, satellites, and the like. However, just in the past year or so we've learned that there is water in quantities never imagined up there. Imagine if we had never stopped sending scientists there, how much sooner might we have found that out? Now that we know it, why aren't we gearing up to send people, actual human beings, up to start seeing whether we can put all the knowledge we've gleaned in the past 41 years to better use? I've been dreaming of a moon colony since before I can remember... There is no reason it can't become a reality, it's actually more realistic than it ever was before. The moon is chock-full of resources beyond anything we imagined even a few years, let alone a few decades, ago.

Why did voyages to the moon end in the "testing" phase?

Oh, I know plenty of smart and very true answers to that, but I assert that it's time to wipe the slate clean, stop pointing fingers and harping over history, and put in the effort and money for the benefit of all mankind. So what did I do? Wrote a song about it, of course!

Photograph by NASA JSC.

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