The first impression anyone will have of a Lunar Settlement will be that of a complex of mounds

Dr. T. D. Lin, a native of Taiwan, is now living and working in this country for Construction Technology Laboratories in Skokie, Illinois wants to build a lunar base out of concrete. In order to have done his homework in connection with the World Space Foundation bid for a small amount of Apollo sample return […]

A few weeks ago I took in an unusual concert: the Northern Illinois University (De Kalb) Steel Drum Band, largest and oldest in the country, was playing at the UWM Union (University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee). I went to get a fore taste of “Moon Music”. Humor me a bit with these assumptions. Musical instruments […]

[The second in a series of articles on the need to predevelop the SOFTWARE for a Lunar Civilization] I remember as a young man too many years ago [1955] my first time in Hudson Bay Company (yes, the original Canadian Trading Co.) department store in Calgary Alberta. How impressed I was by the great variety […]

One settlement a world does not make! Of course one must start with a single site, and it will be able to serve most of the initial needs. But…

The large dark areas on the Moon, the so-called Lunar Seas, formed three to four billion years ago when most of the large impact basis filled with layers of a very low viscosity lava and cooled. Some such basins on the Farside of the Moon did not fill with lava and are called thassaloids ( […]

It has been estimated that it takes a community of about 250,000 minimum to provide all the various goods and services in a diversified economy to be substantially independent of imports. When anyone speaks of their belief that a Lunar or Martian settlement of a few hundred persons can be autonomous, they are either being […]

The customary prospectus for the Moon is that it will be a major, or the major, supplier of liquid oxygen to low Earth orbit depots and of raw ores to L5 colonies or Space Settlements where it will be turned into metal alloy components of more space colonies and solar power satellites, the slag left […]

Man-in-the-Moon my foot! Looks to me more like a fetus in the Moon, the fetus of the human civilization that could arise and flourish there, given the development and utilization of our present capacities and lots of dedicated non-mercenary hard work. Otherwise, the fetus-in-the-Moon will surely be stillborn, or worse, aborted. And then we will […]

[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 […]