Definitely. With no reservation. I’d do it even if some joker from NASA said, “We’ve got all this 1969-vintage Apollo gear just collecting dust and we decided you’re the guy to see if it still works.”
In fact, that’s definitely the way to go: sitting atop a set of f’huge rocket motors in a little space capsule with a thermos full of Tang. No Beanstalks or these lighter-than-air-to-orbit jobs! Okay, I’d take modern electronics and stuff - but I wouldn’t compromise on the pure, 100% raw rocket power. Or the Tang.
All the rest of you are first going to have to drag me out of the spacecraft screaming and kicking.
I’ve wanted to go to the moon ever since I was a kid, a fact I attribute largely to having owned this book: You Will Go to the Moon. It was so influential I bought another copy a few years ago (the childhood copy was lost long ago), just for kicks. It’s great. I particularly remembered a drawing of the kid floating out of his seat in the rocket flight between Earth and the space station. I thought weightlessness was the coolest thing ever, and desperately wanted to experience it.
I was 12 in the summer of 1969 and excitedly watched the landing coverage and stayed up late to watch the first moon walk.
Twenty years later, my office was about 200 feet from the real Apollo 11 Command Module and a real moon rock. And on the 20th anniversary of the landing, I met all three Apollo 11 astronauts and got their autographs in a book they wrote.
So I think I’m a lot closer to having gone to the moon than the rest of you. Neener, neener.
Strongly seconded.
(Actually, it’s only the third best thing. The next best thing is working for years in close proximity to real Apollo artifacts and meeting astronauts in person.)
I’ve wanted to be an astronaut ever since I watched John Glenn touch down. Now, at 55, I don’t know whether I’ve a lot to offer scientific research (can you knit in space? how does chocolate taste on the moon?), but I would love to be a lunar astronaut. If some commercial venture were to offer a lunar trip & I had the millions to spare, I would be in Houston before my check cleared.
The other day I watched the excellent documentary “In the Shadow of the Moon” which focuses on interviews with the original Apollo astronauts. Fantastic movie. But anyway, Buzz Aldrin (the second man on the moon) said that before he stepped off the Apollo’s landing pad and onto the moon’s surface, he took a moment to “take care of business”, as it were-- filling the urine bag. He then said that that was one “first” on the moon that no one had contradicted him about!
If offered the chance to go to the moon…I don’t know if I’d take it. I have too much for me here on the earth to be willing to take the risk, I think-- I’d only go if my husband was going with me, for example. That said, being able to see the earth from space is something I would dearly love to do, short of going all the way to another celestial body. All the original astronauts have said that seeing the Earth from a distance (Jim Lovell was struck by how he could cover it with his thumb) was a profoundly spiritual experience-- not necessarily religious, but it changed their entire conception of the scope of things. I think that’s something all of us could use.
And count me as another person who thinks the voyages to the moon were the greatest achievement of humankind. Actually, I’d probably place Apollo 13 above that, because that proved that even when confronted with circumstances beyond their control and outside any of their meticulous plans, those folks could still bring all of their extensive experience, creativity, and sheer tenacity to bear and get things to turn out right in the end.
One question: Will the TSA be inspecting my luggage? Not that this would prevent me from going, its just that I need to know what I can pack. (Can you think of anything better than getting a good buzz on and just floating there? After joining the 100 mile high club, of course.)
Yes I would love to go to the moon, but no, I could not stay very still…I have some weird form of mild claustrophobia where I have to be able to move my arms and legs all around at any given moment. I can’t have them restrained.
It makes riding on airplanes a pain in the…legs and arms.
So, if one has to be pretty restrained in close quarters, I would have to pass.
He then said that that was one “first” on the moon that no one had contradicted him about! 
