Jason, seriously, stop now. You know absolutely nothing about physics. Yes, there is no air resistance, but escaping Earth's gravity well still requires tremendous force. Did you not at least take physics in high school?
Force = mass * acceleration. (F=ma) is one of the basic principles of Newtonian mechanics.
This can also be rewritten as (a = F/m).
What this means is that to reach a given acceleration, the more mass you're pushing, the more Force you need. It does not matter that there is no air resistance in space. Heck, even if there were no gravity, you'd still need a tremendous amount of force just to move a large object at rest.
You can illustrate this with, for example, a 100lb guy and a 250lb guy on skates. When they push off one another, the smaller guy is going to move faster and further, because it takes less energy to move his total mass. By contrast, the larger guy won't move much at all, because it takes more force to accelerate him to the same speed.
On a side note, you're an obvious troll. Why? Because first you say "It'd be easy for the shuttle to glide to the moon" and then IN THE VERY NEXT LINE you say "you're proving my point, they never made it to the moon."
So getting to the moon is easy, but they never made it because it's not? You can't have it both ways. Either you're right (and I assure you, you're not) or I am. If I'm right, then that doesn't disprove the moon landing, because, as I've stated time and time again, the Saturn V was the most powerful rocket ever launched in the history of mankind. Just because the Shuttle can't make it, doesn't mean the Saturn V can't. And just because the Saturn V can, doesn't mean the shuttle can.
As I tried to explain before, you're saying the equivalent of this:
"If you can fly a 747 across the Atlantic then you can fly a hang-glider across the Atlantic. And if you can't fly a hang-glider across the Atlantic, then that means no 747 has ever crossed the Atlantic."
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