Who wants to actually walk on the Moon?

I recently sent a request to the Experimental Aircraft Association to present our “Human Transport System” to their members at the EAA national “Fly In”. Micro-Space “Ultralight” space systems are a natural outgrowth of the engineering and manufacturing concepts and approaches used to produce affordable personal aircraft (even high performance models). I have learned a great deal from my participation with EAA over the past decades and have successfully applied those skills and technologies to produce the affordable spaceflight systems we are both flying and upgrading.

We are very close to hovered flight with our basic “Lunar Lander” system (continuing to use storable fuels suitable for use on the Moon).

For anyone actually interested in DOING spaceflight, rather than just talking about it, please see the new Micro-Space thread "Astronauts Wanted".

http://spacefellowship.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?t=5551 [1]

Or see the similar thread on this forum.

This is a serious effort to show both sponsors and investors that “Adventurers” still exist. Sponsors will be looking for people with the audacity and charisma of a Charles Lindbergh. People willing to face both known and unknown risks with the ability to survive and later to talk about their experience.

Of course I know they exist, as ocean sailors in tiny boats, mountain climbers and polar trekkers. But do Adventurers actually exist who are interested in space? I know as well as anyone how our governments have quenched our dreams of personal spaceflight. But in actual fact “the Road to Space is Open”. It is a hard road (as many historic adventures have been), it will for a time be expensive to travel there (which was also true for many historic adventures), but interested sponsors will make that travel possible today just as they did yesterday.

A prerequisite for actual missions will be for a number of competent and qualified individuals to stand up and say: I Want To GO! Only then will the media (including Popular Science and Popular Mechanics) pay attention to articles and drawings showing how it can be done. IT CAN BE DONE!

It can be done at a practical cost: a cost a sponsor can pay in exchange for very valuable publicity.

Given the high cost of delivering mass to LEO, “Ultralight” design is necessary for acceptable cost. But since few dangers in space are avoided by heavy walled equipment, safety can be reasonable.

Our designs actually resemble those NASA Langley drafted about 1960, including their proposal for both Lunar Orbit Rendezvous (used for Apollo) and a “Open Frame” one man lander to minimize the mission mass and cost (an option discarded when heavier craft became possible).

It can be done soon. Who wants to GO? (I have found a handful of willing participants, but both sponsors and investors will want to see a better selection, and I am talking about more than a dozen unique missions.) Who ELSE wants to GO?