Travel to the moon for $1.5 billion

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Why build a space elevator on the Moon anyway? An electromagnetic launch track would be easier, cheaper, more versatile and a whole lot more convenient. Plus you could, in time, build as many as needed all over the Moon.

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In order to use fully the lunar resources, however, a transportation system must be developed to bring thousands of tons of lunar surface material into lunar orbit, to space colonies, and into high Earth orbit. One scheme to alleviate the high cost of rocket launching is that of the electromagnetic launcher proposed by Clarke and developed into a feasible system by O’Neill and his colleagues . A linear motor on the lunar equator would accelerate small pellets of lunar ores into an orbit intersecting the L2 liberation point behind the moon. Here a ”mass catcher” would retrieve the pellets and send them via slow space freighter to space colonies for construction of solar power satellites.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate an alternative to this system–an alternative which shows the promise of greater efficiency, greater versatility, and eventually greater economy. The technique which will be investigated here is the use of anchored satellites for the launching of lunar materials into cislunar space. After the rocket and the linear accelerator (for airless worlds only), the anchored satellite represents the only known method of launching payloads to planetary
escape velocity.

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In the paper Lunar Space Elevator paper Dr Pearson says specifically mentions the launch track:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_spaceflight_on_the_human_body

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Space -X says it has two customers that are prepared to pay for a lunar trip. No word on what he will charge them.

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Space -X says it has two customers that are prepared to pay for a lunar trip. No word on what he will charge them.