... tubes in the crater wall near the north pole, where crater-based resources, in particular the lunar regolith and icewater in the lava tubes at the bottom, are researched. Kraterhausen provides the Moon village with...
... to do many more so new spacesuits will need to be resilient and resistant to abrasion of chemically-reactive dust of the regolith as well as offering UV protection, temperature control and oxygen to breathe. Great attention will need to be devoted...
... in the future by developing advanced technologies for generating water from in situ resources (for example, on the Moon); regolith and dust mitigation; liquid-gas phase separation; and payload development and operation. Solutions must be designed...
... makes their contribution to the successful establishment of a Moon colony critical. Research has proved that simulated lunar regolith can support the growth of plants. However, plants on the Moon would also have to contend with a very...
...’s Serpent engines and a specialised hydrogen and oxygen lunar lander using in situ oxygen produced from lunar regolith. These could reduce the cost of reaching the lunar surface by a third, to a level comparable to the current cost...
... reusable launch vehicles. A concept for constructing a lunar base using automated 3D printers, making use of lunar regolith as building material. SpaceX recently succeeded in the Falcon-9 launch of astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS...