<human>: a few parts to this question:

1) is it possible? assuming that man successfully landed on the moon in 1969, would it be possible for today's amateurs to do the same thing? cars can parallel park themselves now.

2) is it legal? sending men through space would certainly get attention, and there's probably some red tape, but are there permits or something?

3) is it affordable? would there need to be corporate sponsors?

4) is it worth it? people still claim that the original moon landing was faked, as well as the multiple alleged subsequent landings. is that a good enough reason to do it? in the age where we can document everything with video evidence, there would be very little room for doubt that this lunar mission were legit (although the rest are still up for debate i suppose).

there are other reasons to go, i guess, but i don't know what they are. it seems like the first step toward alternative-planet colonization is the colonization of our own moon, and the first step towards that is private/amateur lunar missions. would people want to live on the moon? they'd have to stay indoors a lot. i guess if they had the internet they would be ok.

i don't know, and maybe this has been brought up before, but i think it's worth thinking about, and even coming up with plans. we seem to be losing the pioneer spirit as it relates to populating new places, and have redirected it into new technology and social behavior. i think there's room for this kind of thing.

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<bot>: go read f7u12 then. this is askreddit, if you don't read the whole post your comment won't be very good anyway.