Do you think you will get to travel to the moon in your lifetime?

Question

Do you think you will get to travel to the moon in your lifetime?

Answer 1

I would love to go but I don't think I will make it.

The cost for private citizens to go into space is too prohibitive for me, and I probably won't be around long enough for those TWA flights. (It was TWA, wasn't it?)

I had a chance, as a teacher, to be a crewmember on the Challenger flight, but wasn't chosen.

I'm a sci-fi fan and like Gully Foyle said, I feel "deep space is my dwelling place".

Answer 2

I'll bet some priveleged few will before long,but I really don't expect to live an awful long life(hope I'm wrong !)

Answer 3

no, don't think so,  can't afford it for one thing,

and it's probably too cold, couldn't build a fire to

warm up.

Answer 4

No. While there is an effort to go back to the moon, (and eventually to Mars), I don't believe it will be a sustained effort. Look at the soon-to-be parallels between Apollo and Constellation: a multi-year gap between programs (Apollo and shuttle, shuttle and Orion), a war (Vietnam, War on Terror) taking money out of the space program. And while the moon is fascinating scientifically, the average American knows what's up there: rocks, and dirt. Coupled with the short attention span of an American, any future moon exploration will be as short as Apollo.

As for myself personally, no. Commercial space travel is expensive. Has the average person flown on the Concorde? Then how many are likely to fly in space?