Is it possible for people to travel to the moon in the future?

Now it can be basically realized, provided that you can spend hundreds of millions of dollars like the Japanese rich who want to travel around the moon. Traveling to the moon is possible in the foreseeable future, but most people can't afford it.

At present, there are two ways to launch spacecraft from the earth to the moon. One is to launch a spacecraft weighing tens of tons and push it into the lunar orbit with a large thrust rocket at one time, and the other is to assemble the spacecraft in the earth orbit with a small thrust rocket and then push it into the lunar orbit. The former is relatively more time-saving and may have fewer operation steps, while the latter is more complicated. The former was proved feasible by the United States in the1970s, and Russia plans to use the latter to land on the moon around 2030.

At present, countries with the possibility of landing on the moon are aiming at around 2030. Even if it is delayed until around 2040, with the increase of human exploration times, technology will be safer and more stable, and the grasp of landing on the moon will be higher. Then around 2050, traveling to the moon may basically become a reality, but it will be as expensive as some rich people traveling to the International Space Station or traveling around the moon in Japan. A person traveling in space will cost 20 million dollars.

At present, space launch is not very cheap, and there are too few people. Safety is the most important thing in space travel, followed by the number of people. The more people have it, the lower the relative launch cost (or the cost of personal boarding), so that it can be accepted by more people.

Therefore, traveling to the moon is not far away from us. It's not just Musk who tinkers with space travel. The founder of Amazon, Blue Origin Company, is also committed to the popularization of space travel. If this trend continues, from the middle of this century to the second half, space travel will be normalized, and ordinary people can also go to space for a turn.

It is estimated that the popularity of lunar travel will be at the end of this century, because the flight time of the travel spacecraft will be a bit long to reach 380,000 kilometers to distance to the moon, and the corresponding logistics and support will be a bit complicated. More importantly, the difference between traveling around the moon and traveling to the moon is that there must be a lunar module and a return module, which require a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to develop.