What's the lightest yet most efficient ship build to get to the moon?

[purpleivan]

A long time ago I put together a large station in Mun orbit for the Grand orbital space station challenge and the thing has four of these flying lawn chairs, that could just about take a kerbal to the Mun surface and back to the station. As I remember circularising the orbit and rendevous with the station was done using RCS.

So something like this docked on top of a minimal CSM type configuration vehicle to go do the travelling between Kerbin and Mun orbits would be pretty light.

Back in the day before the Dawn drive got nerfed, I sent this from Kerbin orbit to the Mun surface and back. These days you'd need to travel in chair, rather than in a pod, if you want to fly electric.

 

Edited April 24, 2020 by purpleivan