June 2017
How to build a Moon base cheaply
... due to their expensive implementation. In a 2009 study, the Center for Strategic and International Studies suggested a lunar base would cost $35 billion to construct and $7.35 billion a year to maintain. It is clear therefore that until the cost...
May 2022
Design architecture for 3D printing a lunar habitat
... fitness Fast forward into a future when we have the protective exterior of our pre-fabricated lunar base established with lunar-sourced material. Design considerations will need to facilitate parallel construction of an inner sealed shell which...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
... lead to new possibilities of local extraction from lunar-based mines, both robotic and astronaut tended. NASA’s...could be the answer to water, air and fuel production for lunar bases and interplanetary spacecraft like the BFR. ‘Fuel farms’ could be...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
...already begun to make his mark. Plans to construct a lunar base - which might also serve as a staging platform for ...John F Kennedy launched the US on a fast-track and competitive lunar trajectory. “The situation is very different today,” he explains. ...
November 2019
The economic promise of space
... live and work on the high frontier. An infrastructure of scientific and commercial platforms in orbit, and lunar bases connected by a reliable transportation network, seemed inevitable to an inspired generation of ‘baby boomers’ who flooded into...
October 2021
Russia and China – a new space axis
..., the ability to fly cosmonauts and hangtianyuan to the Moon; while jointly developing a single automated, later occupied, lunar base. Russia and China could still be described, at this stage, as flirting with each other, both somewhat nervously...
