The United Launch Alliance’s 30 year plan for a Cislunar economy

2017 came and went with no team winning the Google Lunar XPRIZE. The expectation was that the competition would end at the end of 2017 but Google and The XPRIZE Foundation announced that as long as the team landed prior to March 31, 2018 it could still win. The previous cutoff in 2015 was that […]

The Marius Hills may someday be an industrial center

For all these nine manned missions to the Moon accomplished, six of them landing, so many really basic things were left undone

Since the slow rhythm of sunrise and sunset cannot be ignored on the Moon, the calendar should be organized around it.

What does power generation on the Moon have to do with software? We’ll soon see. Perhaps the most commonly proposed source of power for an initial Lunar Base whose requirements are in the 100-1000 kilowatt range, is a form of fast compact nuclear reactor such as is being developed in the SP-100 Program for space […]

How might we access the moons of Mars and to what ends?

[The first of a series of articles on the need to predevelop the SOFTWARE of a Lunar Civilization] Yes, the air and water of a Lunar settlement can be chemically recycled; and yes, the settlers can be fed synthetic foods so that it would not be strictly necessary to bring to the Moon any representatives […]