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Be glad people still believe anyone ever went to the moon at all. That may not be the case in a few more years.

• dreamcompiler 2y ago
  Pretty soon it will be possible for tourists to visit the moon and see the litter we left with their own eyes. In fact, job 1 needs to be building fences around the landing sites so people don't trample all over them.
  • krapp 2y ago
    We're still in the "millionaire celebrity ego-trip to nudge against the Karman line" stage of commercial space travel. "Pretty soon" is nowhere near a likely timeframe for crowds of tourists clomping around on the moon.
  • PaulHoule 2y ago
    The moon is further away than you think. The Apollo mission architecture was a lot more feasible than others that have been considered. The current plan to use a Starship returns about the same payload with a much larger and taller vehicle that is inclined to tip over. You really want a landing pad. Refueling from lunar materials might be possible but volatiles seem precious. The mission with that vehicle that makes the most sense to me is to land it with a full payload and use it for habitat, workshop, storage tanks or scrap metal. Space tourism to a micro O’Neill colony in LEO decked out as a flashy space hotel seems more believable to me. I designed one that needs 15 Starship loads of LN2 for the atmosphere but that is fewer launches than they plan to put one Starship on the moon.
  • rkagerer 2y ago
    Funny thing, I bet by then authentic Armstrong poop (which comprises some of that litter) will be more valuable than moonrocks.