But the moon is so big and bright its hard to miss
yes but it is always facing earth in the same direction while the earth spins and goes around the sun my son, by the time it takes you to leave earth and get in the ionisphere with the falcon vehicle of choice your coordinates would already be off by the movement of earth, thus failcan propulsion would send you far away from the moon, it would be impossible to steer a craft going 10,000 miles an hour