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 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...
July 2020
Investigations into plant growth on the Moon
... laid the foundations for ongoing technological advancements in plant growth and how they can be applied to a real lunar base situation to help further future human exploration. Acknowledgement United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA...
February 2022
Nutritional issues on interplanetary spaceflights
...shelf-life of at least three years To provide comfortable conditions for cooking and consuming meals in an inhabited section of a lunar base, for example, there should be an area with a dining table, microwave oven, electric stove, baking unit, water...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... a backwards step by the US government away from a more ambitious agenda for space exploration. Even the proposed lunar Gateway - a base in lunar orbit used as a platform for astronauts heading to the Moon and a key element of NASA's Artemis program...
October 2015
Russian business: a long road to the stars for private space initiative
... sector continues to be largely state-dominated but that could change in the near future. From small satellites to a lunar base, the Russian business sector has big plans, and could save governments a lot of money When Russia...