Q&A for How to Go to the Moon

Based on past NASA missions, it would take about three days to get to the moon.

You bring it in bottles or a water tank.

The body suit worn on the mission is designed to take care of such emergencies. Moreover, the diet of everyone on board is strictly controlled weeks and months ahead of the launch. So the mission control even knows how much of that would be coming out in your 'bathroom'.

The Apollo astronauts spent 22 hours on the moon, which is about average.

Well, there's nothing much to be gained by going to the moon, now. It's expensive and we can't bring any valuable resources back. We just wanted to prove it could be done, and now we've done it.

SpaceX sells tickets to go around the moon, but not on the surface yet. Maybe we'll get there one day soon.

As a private citizen, you are better off asking SpaceX for help instead of NASA. SpaceX is already selling seats for trips around the moon, so it isn't much of a stretch that they could take people to the surface of the moon as well.

There isn't any real value in going to the moon. It's expensive; you have to keep your astronauts alive, so it's even more expensive; your rocket has weight limits, so you can't take much with you or bring much back; any science you want to do on the moon can be done by much cheaper drones.

It can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to go to the moon.

Interplanetary travel will be very rare and prohibitively expensive for the foreseeable future.

Yes, with a telescope, possibly even without one, depending on size.

Depending on location on the lunar surface and time of lunar day or night, the temperature on the Moon can range from minus-424° F. to +250° F.

There is no water -- no seas -- on the Moon's surface.

Yes, communication loss will happen, unless there is a network of satellites in lunar orbit to relay the data.

The launch window is a time period in which the rocket needs to be launched to reach its destination.

The moon has always remained an important part of astrology throughout history. The moon in astrology is a symbol of emotions.

Look on the NASA website for updates. The Artemis missions are promising about a return to the moon, perhaps by 2024.

A federal US court set the value of the moon rocks at $50,800 per gram, based on how much it cost the U.S. government to retrieve the samples between 1969 and 1972.

Your own oxygen in a decent space suit; at least enough food for the trip; a copilot is a nice idea; lots of absorbent underwear (also known as diapers); radio to speak to your flight crew; a flight manual with everything you need for a safe trip; a couple photos of your family that you toss into a crater like that guy who played Neil Armstrong in "First Man" did!

No, a rover doesn't need to pack oxygen, because it doesn't breathe. It also doesn't need to pack food, or anything really.

We don't yet know that there's nothing significant to be gained, as the Moon has not been fully explored, and every decade introduces new technological advances for research and study. Each trip reveals new scientific data that can't be obtained any other way; for example, in 2008 India's Chandrayaan-1 discovered water on the Moon. It's also rich in magnesium, aluminium, silicon, iron and titanium, resources that may one day be able to be cost-effectively mined. NASA is currently considering a lunar-orbital space station that can be used as a staging area for further travels.

It isn't; that is an old folklore based on people not knowing what the Moon was made of, coupled with its resemblance to a cheese wheel. Neil Armstrong, Edwin Aldrin and Michael Collins proved that it is mostly natural cement and silicon.