50th Anniversary of the moon landing

[grampahol]

Aside from the fact it happened two days BEFORE my 10th birthday and still pisses me off to this day I also go from believing it happened to not believing it back to believing it. I really want to believe it, but on the same hand don't particularly trust the United States government to tell us the truth about much of anything anymore. Nearly everything coming from Washington today has an extreme partisan spin to make belief seem incredulous. The part that's bothered me for some time now is why has no nation ever returned. We've had people living in space for some time with untold missions into space, but nobody has bothered to go back to the moon for what reasons exactly? Certainly it's not the lack of money nor political will for that matter. If nations have the money to keep people alive on the ISS for long periods, launch untold satellites and probes to the furthest reaches of our solar system and beyond then what's the reasoning to never having returned to the moon in all this time?  Something about this just defies all logic and we're certainly not the only nation capable of going into space. 
Perhaps it is political since neither political party is willing to allow the other to achieve any accomplishments even if it means American prestige, technological advancement or anything else that might benefit the vast majority of the human race. The only thing either party seems willing to sign off on together is killing. They all seem to like the idea of military misadventures that cost us all untold dollars, but none seem willing to advance things that may benefit us all.