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Contents
- 1 PRELUDE
- 1.1 Analog Research Stations
- 1.2 Lunar Tourism
- 1.3 Economic Geography: chemical, mineralogical, and topographic resources
- 1.4 Planned Lunar Orbiters, Landers, impactors & their science goals
- 1.5 Unaddressed Prospecting and Exploration goals
- 1.6 Predevelopment of Needed Technologies
- 1.7 Getting Familiar with the Moon
- 2 WHERE TO
- 3 THE RETURN
- 4 BREAKOUT AGENDA
- 5 SETTLEMENT GROWTH
- 6 TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE
- 7 HEALTHY CITIZENS
- 8 UNIVERSITY OF LUNA
PRELUDE
Analog Research Stations
Past, Present, Planned analog activities
- Oregon Moonbase
- Drumheller Badlands/Calgary Space Workers Habitat
- Moon Society exercises at MDRS
- MexLunaHab
- NASA mockups
- Seabed stations as an analog of isolation
Architecture Options
Biological support Options
Utility Options
Simulant Options
Research Priorities
other
Lunar Tourism
Tourism from orbit
- Loop-the-Moon tours
- Self-contained butterfly landers
Surface tourism
- Early land facilities, excursion support
- Early land excursions
- Scenic access
- Geological/scenic preserves & Lunar National Parks
- Scenic cableways
- Scenic roads
- Scenic overlooks
- Observation towers
- Tourist concessions
- Crew/passenger operable facilities
- Historical site access
- Settlement circuit
- Development of diverse architectures
- Development of diverse flora and fauna
- Development of diverse cultures
- Limb "peekaboo" locations
- Farside heavens
- The 7 wonders of the Moon
- Suborbital tours for Lunans
- other
Economic Geography: chemical, mineralogical, and topographic resources
Unfinished Robotic "Prospecting"
- Elements mapped at medium resolution to date: iron, thorium, hydrogen, calcium
- Need to map all major elements at higher resolution
Unfinished Robotic "Exploration"
- High resolution topographic contour map from which to identify contiguous areas of easy transit and most logical corridors linking them
- Prerequisite for a global map of potential highway and railway corridors
- Prerequisite for delisting interesting sites to that are access challenged
- Orbital mapping of subsurface voids
- Local and irregular voids; possible gas pockets
- Meandering linear voids: lavatubes
Surface ground truth probes
- Verify, quantify, qualify. and assess expected polar ice deposits in various crater permashade areas around both poles
- Explore suspected openings into lavatubes
- Final exploration of sites on the short list for an outpost installation
- Crater central peak sampling
Typography Assets
- Using Lavatubes
- Inflatables, factories, warehousing, agriculture, archiving
- Using Rilles
- Using Craters
- Using Catennae
- other
Planned Lunar Orbiters, Landers, impactors & their science goals
Chang'e I (China)
Chandrayaan I (India)
Selene (Japan)
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (US-NASA)
LCROSS (US-NASA)
Russian Impactor fleet
Unaddressed Prospecting and Exploration goals
Unadressed prospecting goals
Unadressed exploration goals
Predevelopment of Needed Technologies
Special R&D-focused curricula
Masters & doctoral theses topics listings in various disciplines
Spin-up entrepreneurial opportunities
- Development of draft spin-up business plans
Design contests
College level engineering competitions
Cutting-edge workshops
Hosting specific R&D challenge courses
Getting Familiar with the Moon
Lunar Maps
- History of lunar mapmaking
- Online Atlases
- Hardcopy Atlases
- Lunar Nomenclature
- The persons after which craters have been named
Lunar Surface Features
- List of lunar mare (sea), oceanus (ocean), lacus (lake), sinus (bay), palus (swamp) lava flooded areas
- Lunar Craters
- Large walled plains
- Craters with central peaks
- Flooded craters
- Ghost craters
- Ray craters
- Crater chains
- Lunar rilles
- Lunar Mountains
- Lunar domes
- Other features
Understanding what you see
- The origin of the Moon
- The history of lunar bombardment
- The great lava floods
Observing the Moon
- Observing the Moon's familiar nearside
- The possibility of observing much of farside via telescopes in the L4 and L5 Lagrange points
- Lunar Observing Certificate Programs