>>2884783It's not really worth the expense, keeping people alive in the harsh vacuum of space isn't easy, especially when there's not all that much of a reason to send them there. It's worth sending robots, though.
China sent a rover a few of years ago. Surprise, surprise, the moon footage looks just like the footage from the Apollo missions. The Lunar Reconnaissance satellite managed to get a photo of that on the surface, just as it has done the Apollo landing sites.
There's also a Google X Prize where the mission is to land a rover on the moon and have it travel to an Apollo site to get footage of it, although since they're protected sites, that needs to be done at a distance.
I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the company who made an inflatable habitat that they tested on the ISS to see how well it keeps a vacuum, their next plan is to send one to the surface of the moon. It's also supposedly a good idea to us lava tubes if we're going to make a moonbase, since you're more protected from cosmic radiation that way.
