Lunarpedia:Outline draft/THE RETURN
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Contents
- 1 PRELUDE
- 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
WHERE TO
THE RETURN
Bursting Apollo's envelope
No one has experienced a lunar dawn or lunar sunset.
No one has slept prone in a bed on the Moon
No one has taken more than a step or two on the Moon without a space suit
Getting to the Moon
Launchers
Cargo carriers
Commodity carriers
- Launch tracks
Modular pod transport systems
- Finished hard habitat modules
- Inflatable module packs
- Modular factory systems
- Modular utility systems
- Power generation
- Air recycling
- Water recycling
- Waste recycling
Personnel carriers
- Crew cabins
- Landing craft
- Ascent craft
- Pressurized
- Open-cockpit
Designing landing components for reuse on the Moon
Developing lunar fuels that can be used between GEO and the Moon
Earth to Moon Way Stations
LEO Depot
L1 Depot
- Growing L! in step with the growth of surface operations
LLO Depot
Site Preparation
Grading
Room for future expansion
Planned warehousing
Planned expansion vectors
Planned access corridors
Location of nearest resources per type
Teleoperations
Pre-landing teleoperations
- Site exploration, asset & obstacle mapping
- Site preparation
- Shielding emplacement
- Initial roadways and paving
- other
post landing teleoperations
- Robotic exploration of areas of interest
- Robotic preliminary prospecting
- Robotic installation of self-help service stations, relays, way points, beacons
- other
Outpost Modules
Adapted ISS hard modules
Ganged SpaceHab modules
New hard modules
Nautilus adaptations
Connectors
Other items
Tankage
Periscopic windows, "sundows"
sunpipe systems
Shielding Options
Direct
- Raw regolith
- Processed regolith less iron, volatiles, large rocks
- Modular regolith: blocks, bags, baffle systems, saddlebags
- Shielding styling, cladding, coloring and other ways of personalization of the exterior of a personal or corporate habitat
Shielding indirect
- Modular hangar structures and interfaces, surface prep
- Shielded warehousing
- Expansion options
Lavatube sites
Site management issues
Respecting the topography
Natural area steadies
Road and path location issues
Warehousing systems
- Sorting for reuse
- By material (knock-down (KD) items)
- Mixed materials
- Barcoding for locatability
- Shielded vs. unshielded warehousing
- Canopy covered storage
- Lavatube storage
- Tank farms
