On this day in 1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the Moon

Why have NASA never returned to the Moon? ... It has been over 40 years!

The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961: perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.

Additional flight objectives included scientific exploration by the lunar module, or LM, crew; deployment of a television camera to transmit signals to Earth; and deployment of a solar wind composition experiment, seismic experiment package and a Laser Ranging Retroreflector .... http://www.nasa.gov