[Tax-chick]

If we're going to the moon, shouldn't we take cheese? And how about a few moose, too?

[NicknamedBob]

We should certainly take cheese. As to moose, does it taste like ham?

We'll have a restricted amount of space, and will have to limit the number of people to no more than one hundred.

We'll use a well-stocked food pantry, CO² scrubbers, all the typical accoutrements of places like the shuttle or the ISS, but we shouldn't have to put up with zero-gee, just reduced gravity.

I'm picturing a six-sided vessel with six of the shuttle-thrusters for propulsion, and six internal pressurized tanks, four for reaction gas, one just for make-up Oxygen, and one for regular compressed air.

By being under continuous thrust, we'll also shave about four days off the typical Lunar journey, but it will still take about a week or so.

There would be a bit of extra acceleration pressure at the beginning and ending of the journey, but most of the trip will be in reduced gravity. You and little Whoosis want to come along?

[NicknamedBob]

The shuttle on the lower right, shown here, is the closest to my vision for the ones we will use.

The wings may seem useless for this mission, but on the return trip, should the need arise, we can use them as emergency escape vessels for Earth atmospheric re-entry. Each shuttle has two Gas Cooled Nuclear Reactor/Rocket Engines, and they tap into the on-board reaction tanks during rocket firing.