What can make us travel to the moon in shortly time and easily ??

Question

What can make us travel to the moon in shortly time and easily ??

Answer 1

It's been done, for small values of easily.  The Apollo project performed seven missions, six of which landed astronauts on the Moon.  If we wanted to do it cheaper, we could use two smaller rockets, put together the lander and command module in low earth orbit, and do the rest of the mission much as Apollo did.  Today's computers are better, so a single astronaut could do the job.  We could use rockets we have already, instead of designing, testing and building new ones.  We'd still need new landing hardware.  But it could be done for a couple billion dollars, instead of tens or hundreds of billions.

Answer 2

If a space elevator ( also known as a space tether) could be constructed, payloads could be sent into space very cheaply.  At that point travel to the moon could be done on a routine basis for not much money.  The problem with the space tether is material strength.  Currently no line hung from space could support its own weight, much less the weight of any cargo.  Exotic carbon buckyball or similar molecules could solve this problem.  Then you only have to worry about an anchor, and the cost of manufacturing several thousand miles of the line, and how to climb it.....

Answer 3

teleport

Answer 4

LoL... cute

Answer 5

well first of all, we would need a spaceship that could leave the atmosphere more easily (instead of a huge blast off with thousands of tons of fuel). the best solution to this would probably be a spaceship that takes off like an airplane.

to get to the moon in a shorter time, we need to go faster, and in order to go faster we need more energy and fuel. having the ship take off like a plane would allow for more fuel to be carried by the ship. in addition we could try and develop and new more efficient propulsion system.

Answer 6

Depends on what you mean by short and easy. The journey will always take more than a day... getting there in any shorter time would be a waste of fuel. Easy is relative. Compared to going to the grocery store, going to the moon is, well, rocket science. Compared to the Apollo program it may be much easier to get there. NASA is planning on going back now using more complex and safe vehicles that they are in the process of creating right now. It will never be cheap though, at least not with rocketry. SCRAM jets may one day be able to bring small payloads to the edge of Earths atmosphere were small rockets could take the payload all the way into space. This would be much cheaper than today's launches. But the holy grail of physically possible cheap travel into space would be the space elevator. A massive super light super stong nanofiber cable would stretch from the Earth's surface to a counterweight in orbit. Elevators would climb up the cable and would be powered by ground or space side microwave generators beaming energy to the elevator. If construction of this became simple (in stark contrast to its impossibility today) than several space elevators could constantly be ferrying people and supplies to and from Earth's surface.