The Heat Is On: New Paper Depicts NASA’s Plan For A Lunar Station
The race to colonize our solar system and beyond is in full swing. There’s already an agreement between China and the European Space Agency (ESA) to set up a moon station. Intended to team up with private companies, the big agencies obviously have a clear vision for lunar exploration.
NASA and the Trump administration are favoring private, US-based companies like SpaceX and even investment communities focusing on the moon, as well.
Ambitions to achieve and reach milestones before going all in on Mars are driving factors. A lunar station just seems to be the next logical step. The NASA Scope and Subject Category Guide shows a lot of areas that will be exploited and its Space Technology Roadmap comes up with many interesting projects. It could start with the Deep Space Gateway, a new spaceport that orbits the moon, followed by smart robots that not only will build stations on the moon but seem destined to supply the earth with electricity produced on our satellite.
There are already designs for an inflatable greenhouse enabling us to farm on the moon sustainable. In other words, the days on the moon will be packed.
Now a new paper published in the journal New Space clearly states, that NASA is developing a lunar station continuing the work that has already…
