Bugün öğrendim ki: "Apollo 18" filmine yanıt olarak, NASA mühendisi John Schuessler, aya inişlerin Apollo 17 ile sona erdiğini, çünkü NASA'nın 1972'den sonra daha fazla aya iniş yapacak zamanı veya fonu olmadığını açıkladı. ay

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**_Apollo 18_ , out in theaters on Friday**, blurs the line between documentary and feature film. Put simply, it's _The Blair Witch Project_ on the moon: The film claims to contain footage from NASA's archives of secret and disastrous Apollo 18 mission. The film's premise should grab the attention of conspiracy theory enthusiasts, but here's the real deal on the end of the Apollo program. First, yes, NASA did plan an Apollo 18. After Apollo 17, NASA scheduled three more missions to the Moon—18, 19 and 20—but those were subsequently grounded. The truth about why, however, isn't stranger than fiction. John Schuessler, a former NASA engineer who worked on the Gemini program that came before Apollo, tells PM that the enormously successful Apollo program was ended for mundane reasons such budget decisions and NASA's research goals. "They'd accomplished everything they were trying to do," he says. "Apollo was a proof that the United States was a leader in technology in space. That was the big gain." Schuessler says NASA simply did not have the time or funds to fit in more moon landings after 1972. The agency had to plan [Skylab](http://books.google.com/books?id=bdgDAAAAMBAJ