Man! are you ignorant!!! My uneducated grandmother believed that it is impossible too..... It will be better if you READ a little before you ask these questions. There were hundreds of 'Amateur' scientists who received Telemetry data from the Moon during the entire moon landing. For your information, this cannot be duplicated in ANY manner!! Some people say it is a hoax; but then, these are usually the people who 'see' things that DONT exist!!! ( like ghosts, devils, blackmagic etc.,) 1. It is not necessary to 'go' to the Moon any more, unless it is to start a colony there. Whatever information that was needed has already been investigated through various moon missions. 2. The 2018 you are talking about is to make the technology ready , so that a Moon base is set up for men to live there. 3. The technology for the Moon base is fast devoloping. It may not take upto 2018 at all and will be much earlier than that. 4. It is not easy to -like you say- "place man on moon" just like that. Do your homework: do you know the temperatures on the Moon??
No one is in a hurry , because there is nothing much profitable on the moon TILL now, thats all.
