Let's be honest. The chances are that you or I will even walk on the moon are slim. Humans haven't made a lunar touchdown in more than four decades. Even among the Apollo astronauts who flew there the numbers weren't great. Of the 24 that made the trip, only half(!) ever got out of a lander and moon-walked.
With this in mind, take a moment to appreciate the fact that right now scientists are gunning to bring you that first-person view of the moon that only a dozen humans have ever experienced before. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University competing in Google's Lunar X Prize (an 18-team challenge to get a privately-funded robot onto Earth's moon) are designing a robot that will beam a 3D video feed into Oculus Rift virtual-reality headsets. If all goes according to plan, a SpaceX rocket will launch the project toward the moon one year from now.
It gets better. The robot's vision will be motion controlled, meaning the operator could turn his or her head, and Andy (the adorable robot's name) will track the Oculus' movement and follows their gaze.
"Imagine the feeling of looking out and seeing rocks and craters billions of years old. Turn your head to the right and you see the dark expanse of space. Turn your head to the left and you see home, Earth," the project's team leader Daniel Shafrir told the BBC.
There is one slight downside. Because the speed of light restrains the rate of communication between us and anything on the moon, Andy will always have an unavoidable 1.2-second lag. Not perfect, but probably still better than peering through the tiny window of a Lunar Module and watching your team members frolic on Mars while you're stuck in the orbiter.