In Reply to: re: 49 years posted by FSM on July 21, 2008 at 22:30:55:

I blame the price of oil for them not going back for so long. At 139 cents per litre and the moon still about 250,000 miles away that's a lot of petrol - 50 grands worth even if they were on a flat road without having to overcome gravity and get out of earth orbit.