December 2021
All for one and one for all – recommendations for a sustainable future in lunar exploration
...cannot be exclusive nor perpetual, that is, no country can declare any region of space as property. Therefore, any lunar base that is constructed must allow free access to all countries regardless of contribution to its construction. In light of this...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... of how we can sustainably live together in a multi-cultural society led to a number of interesting and fresh ideas for lunar base typologies. Sundial Explorer In terms of how we, and especially how young people, want to live in the future, both...
September 2020
Commercial opportunities beyond Earth orbit
... be met cost effectively will be through reusable launch vehicles. A concept for constructing a lunar base using automated 3D printers, making use of lunar regolith as building material. SpaceX recently succeeded in the Falcon-9 launch of astronauts...
February 2021
Supporting sustainable lunar development
... license holder would bid in this auction, perhaps receiving a 10 percent discount relative to the highest bid. A future lunar base. Avoiding coercion There are plans to create LDCs at experimental space habitats in various locations The LDC would...
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...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... deployable airlock studies for orbital applications (Fig. 2), lunar lander study, habitability and lunar base studies of Boeing design for lunar orbital platform-gateway, and lunar surface systems study parts I and II. Analysing the limitations...
