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...
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...
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...
10 November 2017
CubeSat mission to measure water on the Moon
... volatiles such as these could play an important role for any astronauts that find themselves living in proposed lunar bases. There have already been many missions to the Moon so far to study its chemical constituents – Chandrayann-1, the...
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...
22 August 2018
Definitive evidence of water ice on the Moon's surface
... the past, both the Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) detected signatures that were interpreted as...establish a lunar base in the next few decades. "A future Moon mission is needed to examine the whole lunar PSRs to...
