For more than fifty years, humanity has looked up at the Moon and asked the same haunting question: If we walked there in 1969, why haven't we gone back? In Return to the Moon, historian and former NASA consultant Dr. Elias Mercer confronts that question head-on, unraveling the real reasons behind our long absence from the lunar surface. What he discovers is far more complex-and far more compelling-than conspiracy or neglect. Through gripping narrative and investigative depth, the book explores: Richard likes to write about real life