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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

Simulant Options

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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

Unaddressed Prospecting and Exploration goals

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Predevelopment of Needed Technologies

Spin-up entrepreneurial opportunities

• Development of draft spin-up business plans

Getting Familiar with the Moon

Lunar Maps

• History of lunar mapmaking
• Online Atlases

Lunar Map (266 Sector)

• 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

UNIVERSITY OF LUNA

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