coolRight. Say, got $25.4 billion stashed around someplace?
In a more serious note...from Wikipedia:
"In 2008, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's SELENE probe observed evidence of the halo surrounding the Apollo 15 lunar module blast crater while orbiting above the lunar surface. In 2009, NASA's robotic Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, while orbiting 50 kilometres (31 mi) above the moon, photographed the remnants of the Apollo program left on the lunar surface, and photographed each site where manned Apollo flights landed.
In a November 16, 2009 editorial, The New York Times opined that:
“ [T]here’s something terribly wistful about these photographs of the Apollo landing sites. The detail is such that if Neil Armstrong were walking there now, we could make him out, make out his footsteps even, like the astronaut footpath clearly visible in the photos of the Apollo 14 site. Perhaps the wistfulness is caused by the sense of simple grandeur in those Apollo missions. Perhaps, too, it’s a reminder of the risk we all felt after the Eagle had landed — the possibility that it might be unable to lift off again and the astronauts would be stranded on the Moon. But it may also be that a photograph like this one is as close as we’re able to come to looking directly back into the human past.”
Proposed future lunar landing missions, such as the Google Lunar X Prize, intend to record close-up images of the Apollo Lunar Modules and other artificial objects on the surface."
I have a strong feeling it's John Carmack's Armadillo Team (yes, same John Carmack who invented the video game DOOM and QUAKE) will be the first to land the first commercial (non-government funded) unmanned Lunar Lander right beside one of the Apollo landing sites--can't wait to see the faces of the hoaxers on that day
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-RODIONunmanned Lunar Lander..if this will happen I can't wait to see that US flag and the other things left behind.