Maglevs and Waveriders (Riding the Emptiness, #1)

Interested in going to the Moon? A few tens of millions of dollars should buy you a ticket. A few more tens of millions will be enough to build you a not-very-comfortable home for a short vacation in the extreme heat, extreme cold, and totally airless environment of the Moon.

While solar-powered lightships can get you from Earth orbit to orbit around the Moon, they can't get you into Earth orbit. They also can't get you down to the lunar surface.

It's the huge gravity well of Earth and the le...