April 2020
Protecting against the dangers of space radiation
... missions. Apollo mission EVAs ranged from two hours on Apollo 9 to 22 hours on Apollo 17. A future lunar base might require up to 30,000 hours of EVA exploration. Individual resistance Radiation is quite tricky in the way that it can ...
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...
10 December 2018
First far side of the Moon mission underway
...Chang'e 4 have been adapted from Chinas earlier Chang'e 3 lunar probe, which took up residence on the Moon in December...sending astronauts to the Moon and to one day establish a lunar base. The nation has two more missions lined up, Chang’e 5 ...
29 March 2018
Lunar Settlements
... lunar development, outer space habitat design, the human condition, planning and analogues, lunar bases, and lunar ...: “To summarize this summary, it isn’t 1961 any more, when the lunar program was carried along on a wave of public support. So we have...
March 2016
Why We Need Space Artists
...? ‘Two Worlds’ - my most recent ‘traditional’ painting. I wanted to show the ‘lived-in’ interior of a lunar base but also to contrast the bleak, monochrome lunar landscape with the blue skies, clouds, snowy mountains, lake and vegetation of our own...
19 April 2019
Mission to Mars by 2033 not viable says independent report
... is indeed the key. In order to reach Mars, a viable lunar-base is needed that can be used as a platform for launching vehicles ...then perhaps not all is lost. But, building a lunar infrastructure, while developing a host of new deep space technologies...
