Inside the ESA's Plan To Build the First Moon Base

"We've known for years that the European Space Agency was pursuing
research aimed at developing a lunar base. And the ESA has
continued to build on the concept alongside a team of architects--
today, it released a video that shows more specifics about the
idea, which would use lunar soil to print a habitat for four
astronauts."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-esas-p...oon-1655417694

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"We've known for years that the European Space Agency was pursuing
research aimed at developing a lunar base. And the ESA has
continued to build on the concept alongside a team of architects--
today, it released a video that shows more specifics about the
idea, which would use lunar soil to print a habitat for four
astronauts."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-esas-p...oon-1655417694


Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath on this

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On 11/7/2014, 2:37 PM, Greg (Strider) Moore wrote :
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"We've known for years that the European Space Agency was pursuing
research aimed at developing a lunar base. And the ESA has
continued to build on the concept alongside a team of architects--
today, it released a video that shows more specifics about the
idea, which would use lunar soil to print a habitat for four
astronauts."

See:

http://gizmodo.com/inside-the-esas-p...oon-1655417694


Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath on this

As they say in the article, they don't actually have a plan to build a
Moon base, they are just developing concepts. I think that kind of work
is very interesting. Building a Moon base can look very much
pie-in-the-sky, but if you work on different scenarios and look at what
kind of in situ resource utilisation you can do, after a while the
pie-in-the-sky starts to seem more real.


Alain Fournier