Space Trip to the Moon (comic cover art)
Read the whole issue at Archive:
https://archive.org/details/SpaceAdventures23_586/page/n13/mode/2up
That mountaineering pick on a rope will be really handy for mining those moon stones.
Seeing this makes me wonder: could astronauts fly down from a ship to the lunar surface? How much reverse thrust would you need to keep from crashing into the surface?
It's all relative to how fast they are coming. The slower they are, the less thrust they would need.