Lunarpedia:Outline draft/THE RETURN

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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 L1 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

Outpost ingress/egress

Spacesuit-docking

Vehicle docking

Vehicle to vehicle docking

Dust management systems

other

Outpost/Settlement Wastes

Human Wastes

Biomass wastes

Packaging Wastes

Processing wastes

Waysources (waste resources)

Throughput

Energy reuse/energy embodiments

other

Making Money at the Outpost

Deploying and testing proprietary ISRU equipment

Photography for movie backgrounds

Collect lunar samples for sale

Made-on-luna trinkets, coins

Crew members to pay towards their participation, after full training

other ideas

BREAKOUT AGENDA

SETTLEMENT GROWTH

TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE

HEALTHY CITIZENS

UNIVERSITY OF LUNA

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