You've inadvertently nailed it..
Speculating here:-
1st rocket to low moon polar orbit
A light weight payload (1000-2000Kg ??)
- multi-spectrum radiation sensor.
- long range laser thermal sensors
- Super hires camera (what's the max pixel range available today)
- Radiation shielding
- Comms stuff
- polar orbit configuration fuel
+-3000Dv from earth to moon
+-12000Dv to orbit from Oith
Not a very big rocket ..
The trick is.. who would benefit from this type of adventure (besides wo/mankind). Who would like to thumb their noses at the lying powers... another lying power (of course) North Korea.
Or how about advertising power.... Yup.. our beer cans were there before Niel Armstrong :lol:
Then there's crowd funding - sh.t there are so many non-believers ('Kfirs') - this is an untapped market.
This would surely be an interesting adventure ...
:rofl: