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Why have we not returned humans to deeper space or to the moon since 1972? POLL . . .
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What is "Deep space" in this context?
Is there another target at the same or lesser energy distance as the Moon that you have in mind?
Because Apollo didn't have a bunch of other places it could go. It was built to go to the Moon. It did. The next worthwhile targets are Mars, and Earth-crossing asteriods, and in terms of Apollo hardware you are talking 20-30 Saturn V launches, minimum, for either of those targets. It isn't exactly, "Hey, we have a spacecraft already, let's just take a run out to Alpha Centauri!"
Quoting: nomuse (not logged in) 2380183 Deep space = beyond High Earth Orbit ~ 22,000 miles . . .  The point is not whether it can be defined. The point is whether it belongs in the question. I say it doesn't. I say you are merely baiting. Adding "Or anywhere else!!!!" is a transparent attempt to make the Apollo missions seem even more unusual than they were. There isn't anywhere else. There isn't any comparable mission possible. There is no point in going into "deep space" until you are able to go somewhere useful. Like Mars, for instance. Your question is, stripped of this framing, "Why haven't we repeated the Apollo landings a seventeenth or eighteenth time?"
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