October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... expected to begin in around 2025. The ability of in situ manufacturing of infrastructure elements increases the sustainability of a future lunar settlement Maria Antonietta Perino, has been working for many years at Thales Alenia Space on the design...
29 March 2018
Lunar Settlements
... volume dates from a four-day symposium on lunar settlements held back in 2007 and was first published...relevant today is the lamentable lack of progress towards human exploration and settlement of the Moon. So, for this reason alone - with appropriate...
July 2019
Settling the final frontier
... wilderness will not be easy, of course. As the late Paul Spudis, a scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston, said in a 2017 essay on lunar settlement, we will need to “arrive, survive, and thrive…”. None of those things will be easy...
October 2021
Mining lunar hydrogen
... surface, a spacesuit allows astronauts to carry out the operations required, such as constructing lunar settlements, mineral prospecting, setting up communications and navigation aids, assembling engineering units for drawing water and oxygen ...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
...’s LCROSS mission and currently estimated at over a billion metric tonnes per pole, could be a game changer for lunar settlement. Reusability revolution Not since Sergei Korolev and Wernher von Braun have engineers hacked the rocket...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... different processes. At the end of the cycle, fertiliser for the greenhouses will be produced in order to make the lunar settlement independent of Earth. The by-product of this process is the gas methane, which will be stored in tanks to be used...
