Conspiracy theorists' have been trying to disprove the moon landings for years. Now NASA responds (sort of) by releasing a whole bunch of cool satellite images that show the landers, tracks, flags, instruments etc. that they left behind.
Of course this wouldn't be necessary if NASA had actually done anything decent by now. Trips to the moon should be old-hat by now, not ancient history. I remember when I was young, maybe about 13, I looked out my window at the moon. I had a yearning sadness as I stared at it, knowing that I'd probably never get to go there (or anywhere else in space.) I can't tell you how much more sad I would have felt if you'd told me that in the next three decades, no human would have done so much as leave Earth orbit. I mean, what the heck have we been mucking around at? Where is the moon base? Where are the mining stations in the asteroid belt? Where are the orbital solar power stations? Where is the 2001: A Space Odyssey space station? All we've got is an almost finished rather pathetic little international space station that they're already talking about abandoning. We've landed a few feeble things on Mars. Oh yes, and a few probes to different parts of the Solar System. Probes ... hmmm. I think a few properly applied probes to politicians and NASA bureaucrats might have led to a little more of where we should be, and a little less of, "have we accomplished so little in so many years?"
