Why can’t they make lunar hotel and farm?

[Anonymous]

I think it’s a good idea to make a hotel at moon and a green house farm. Many people will want to travel.

[Effably]

Cost outweighs profit. That's all.

NASA needs about four billion dollars to send a four-person team to the moon and back. These are trained astronauts.

If sending passengers you also need space for trained professionals. Unless you are willing (and able) to pay a few billion for your trip it is not feasible.

SpaceX tickets , which is so far more dream than reality, is expected to cost around 500 000$ each. While I am sure many would go at that price it is only a dream so far and many technological issues need to be solved first.

If we assume they are sold and a moontrip now costs half a million. How many people will go at that price? Enough to justify a hotel, staff, farm and so on? Maybe. I have some doubts but it could be possible.

At 1-2000 000 000$ a ticket? The list of people worldwide who can afford it number less than 3000.

[Astarlessnightsky]

Expensive as fuck.

And super risky.

Even leaving earths atmosphere for maybe minutes cost hundred millions or even more.

The moon is even further away and requires a safe landing to get back to earth.

Not talking about constructing a big building complex thats mostly self sustained.

No one sent a human being to the moon after the first succesfull mission. So there is little reward at a high price and high risk.

[TheSpaceGnome]

Low gravity, no atmo, no magnetosphere, too cold for liquid water, nutrient dead soil.
Everything would need to be imported, even oxygen, going outside the hotel without a space suit would kill you. Does that sound like a good vacation to you?