April 2025
Racing to the Moon
... simplicity and lower cost of its approach. Artistic representation of China’s proposed International Lunar Research Station (ILRS), a planned lunar base currently being led by Roscosmos and the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Senegal...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... the Chinese goddess Chang’e, has three steps - a robotic programme, a human spaceflight programme and the establishment of lunar bases. The impetus for this began in the 1960s, when Chinese geologist Ouyang Ziyuan saw what America...
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...
