Use a spinning, orbiting tether to fling yourself to orbit from a low altitude reachable by plane, then use use rockets for guidance and landing. Use the same tether to get back down to earth, imparting your momentum back onto it and keeping it stable.
Take a plain ol’ vanilla rocket
Ascend on Santa Claus’s sleigh and get space suits for the reindeer and people
Hack the simulation we’re living in and set your location to the moon.
One-box Newcomb’s problem, then use the money to buy a ticket.
Redirect astroids to hit the moon and lower its orbit until it breaks up into rings, then wait for some of the material to come to Earth.
Closed cycle nuclear thermal rocket all the way there
Use an orbital ring to reach orbit, then take a rocket to the moon.
X-rays! Upload your mind and use x-rays to transmit it to a receiver on the moon.
Orbital ring around the earth with a track on it. Hang a tether down from the moon to connect with the ring via a train that moves around the earth a little less than once per day. Take one of the elevators to the top. Match velocity with the train via another train. Get on the main train. Get on the tether climbing elevator. Climb the tether. Arrive on the moon.
Nuclear Salt Water Rocket
Take a space elevator to Geosynchronous orbit, then take rocket to moon.
Hop across the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
Electromagnet–like the ones used to pick up cars, just a lot bigger.
Linger around till the moon’s orbit decays and it hits the earth.
Upload your mind to a specially designed computer capable of surviving like 100Gs of acceleration, then shoot yourself in a big cannon.
Nuclear fusion drive
Ask the Lizard People Of Alpha Draconis 1 for an ansible to transmit information faster than light. Then use the ansible to time travel since its the same thing, back to when the earth and moon were the same planet.
Redefine the words “Earth” and “Moon” to refer to the celestial bodies now known as “Pluto” and “Charon”. Build a bridge directly across the already tidally locked worlds.
Linger around until the moon’s tidal energy transfer slows it down until it’s tidally locked, then build the bridge.
Nanotech! Create nanotech capable of rearranging the Earth and Moon to become one planet.
Do the same as #12 except use the train to slow down the relative rotation of the Earth to the Moon. Dissipate the train’s brake’s heat energy via water pumped up from the ocean and vaporized. Use the energy to pump the water. Then build a bridge straight to the moon after it becomes tidally locked.
Elastagirl can do it. Just turn into her and grab the moon and pull yourself up.
Rip the Earth apart and be on one of the rocks that collides with the moon.
Put up two spinning tethers, one in the orbit of each planet. Ride them back and forth all you want.
Lasso the moon
Actually become Omega.
Quietly waait for a small black hole to pass close to Earth. Steer your vacuum-hardened airplane to cross its path and get a gravity assist sling to the moon.
Use a grappling hook.
Eh, you could probably just print out the sequences and read them one page at a time, standing atop the last read page until you reach the moon.
Shuttle rocket to orbit, then nuclear or solar electric tug to ferry you to the moon
Shuttle to orbit, then open cycle nuclear thermal rocket to moon.
Shuttle to orbit, then use space-based solar power stations to concentrate light into a pushing laser and use a solar sail to reach the moon. Use similar lasers around the moon to slow down.
Use active support (like balloons) to extend the barrel of the cannon to lower the maximum acceleration while still achieving escape velocity.
Make another rotating tether which orbits the earth at half the moon’s distance. It rotates to deliver payloads between the planets, which are delivered to it by big tethers or chains of tethers on each planet.
Build a giant array of mirrors to concentrate energy to vaporize part of the moon’s surface and send material in the opposite direction, changing the course of the moon’s orbit to where it’s tidally locked with Earth (1 month = 24 hours). Then build a tether elevator to bridge the planets.
Do the same as #39, except changing Earth’s spin to 1 rotation per month; then build the bridge.
Spread word of building a big rail gun on the moon to hurl down one giant moon rock for every year after 2050 that it didn’t exist.
Use the threat of #41 on a smaller group of people to compel them to make you a moon rocket with a robot and cannon-materials.
Use #42 to make the canon, fulfilling #41.
Use people’s understanding of #43 to make doing #42 unnecessary.
Use people’s condemnation of (and thus pre commitment to not complying with) the methods #41-44 to banish you to the world’s newest one person extraterrestrial penal colony.
Get Scotty to beam you up.
Already be the clone of an astronaut on a one year shift on a mining settlement on the moon. “Come up to the moon” when it’s time to change shifts.
50 ways to get to the moon:
:::spoilerProject Orion-style nuclear pulse drive
Use a spinning, orbiting tether to fling yourself to orbit from a low altitude reachable by plane, then use use rockets for guidance and landing. Use the same tether to get back down to earth, imparting your momentum back onto it and keeping it stable.
Take a plain ol’ vanilla rocket
Ascend on Santa Claus’s sleigh and get space suits for the reindeer and people
Hack the simulation we’re living in and set your location to the moon.
One-box Newcomb’s problem, then use the money to buy a ticket.
Redirect astroids to hit the moon and lower its orbit until it breaks up into rings, then wait for some of the material to come to Earth.
Closed cycle nuclear thermal rocket all the way there
Rocket Alignment Problem– solve it.
Use an orbital ring to reach orbit, then take a rocket to the moon.
X-rays! Upload your mind and use x-rays to transmit it to a receiver on the moon.
Orbital ring around the earth with a track on it. Hang a tether down from the moon to connect with the ring via a train that moves around the earth a little less than once per day. Take one of the elevators to the top. Match velocity with the train via another train. Get on the main train. Get on the tether climbing elevator. Climb the tether. Arrive on the moon.
Nuclear Salt Water Rocket
Take a space elevator to Geosynchronous orbit, then take rocket to moon.
Hop across the Einstein-Rosen Bridge.
Electromagnet–like the ones used to pick up cars, just a lot bigger.
Linger around till the moon’s orbit decays and it hits the earth.
Upload your mind to a specially designed computer capable of surviving like 100Gs of acceleration, then shoot yourself in a big cannon.
Nuclear fusion drive
Ask the Lizard People Of Alpha Draconis 1 for an ansible to transmit information faster than light. Then use the ansible to time travel since its the same thing, back to when the earth and moon were the same planet.
Redefine the words “Earth” and “Moon” to refer to the celestial bodies now known as “Pluto” and “Charon”. Build a bridge directly across the already tidally locked worlds.
Linger around until the moon’s tidal energy transfer slows it down until it’s tidally locked, then build the bridge.
Ask Omega.
Nanotech! Create nanotech capable of rearranging the Earth and Moon to become one planet.
Do the same as #12 except use the train to slow down the relative rotation of the Earth to the Moon. Dissipate the train’s brake’s heat energy via water pumped up from the ocean and vaporized. Use the energy to pump the water. Then build a bridge straight to the moon after it becomes tidally locked.
Elastagirl can do it. Just turn into her and grab the moon and pull yourself up.
Rip the Earth apart and be on one of the rocks that collides with the moon.
Put up two spinning tethers, one in the orbit of each planet. Ride them back and forth all you want.
Lasso the moon
Actually become Omega.
Quietly waait for a small black hole to pass close to Earth. Steer your vacuum-hardened airplane to cross its path and get a gravity assist sling to the moon.
Use a grappling hook.
Eh, you could probably just print out the sequences and read them one page at a time, standing atop the last read page until you reach the moon.
Shuttle rocket to orbit, then nuclear or solar electric tug to ferry you to the moon
Shuttle to orbit, then open cycle nuclear thermal rocket to moon.
Shuttle to orbit, then use space-based solar power stations to concentrate light into a pushing laser and use a solar sail to reach the moon. Use similar lasers around the moon to slow down.
Use active support (like balloons) to extend the barrel of the cannon to lower the maximum acceleration while still achieving escape velocity.
Make another rotating tether which orbits the earth at half the moon’s distance. It rotates to deliver payloads between the planets, which are delivered to it by big tethers or chains of tethers on each planet.
Build a giant array of mirrors to concentrate energy to vaporize part of the moon’s surface and send material in the opposite direction, changing the course of the moon’s orbit to where it’s tidally locked with Earth (1 month = 24 hours). Then build a tether elevator to bridge the planets.
Do the same as #39, except changing Earth’s spin to 1 rotation per month; then build the bridge.
Spread word of building a big rail gun on the moon to hurl down one giant moon rock for every year after 2050 that it didn’t exist.
Use the threat of #41 on a smaller group of people to compel them to make you a moon rocket with a robot and cannon-materials.
Use #42 to make the canon, fulfilling #41.
Use people’s understanding of #43 to make doing #42 unnecessary.
Use people’s condemnation of (and thus pre commitment to not complying with) the methods #41-44 to banish you to the world’s newest one person extraterrestrial penal colony.
Get Scotty to beam you up.
Already be the clone of an astronaut on a one year shift on a mining settlement on the moon. “Come up to the moon” when it’s time to change shifts.
Create your own kugelblitz black hole drive.
Follow the yellow brick road.
Use the hidden message in my answer!
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