Posted on 04/26/2017 6:38:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tian Yulong, secretary general for China's space agency, confirmed the plans ESA has described its 'Moon Village' as a launching pad for missions to Mars The lunar site could also support space mining missions and even tourism It could also act as a 'pit stop' for the further exploration of deep space
China is talking with the European Space Agency about collaborating on a human settlement on the moon.
The secretary general for China's space agency, Tian Yulong, disclosed the talks today in Chinese state media.
The ESA has previously described its 'Moon Village' as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars.
Further details on what the collaboration could entail were not revealed.
But last year, the head of the ESA elaborated on plans to build a village on the moon.
'The future of space travel needs a new vision,' said Jan Woerner.
The concept is a base for lunar exploration by humans and robots, which would act as a stopover for spacecraft, and become a 'village' with mining and even tourism.
'The future of space travel needs a new vision.
'Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever,' said Woerner.
'If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on. No, that would be misleading.
'My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place.
'And this place would be on the Moon.
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It gives you the chance to work out the necessary skills 3 days from home, before you launch to Mars, 3 years from home. Like making a few trips to Canary Islands before heading off to the Indies.
They’ll be the first lunatics.
Great-After Merkel totally destroys Europe... they will have a place to go
It’s NOT the distance that is the advantage! It’s ESCAPE VELOCITY and ENERGY requirements to achieve that velocity.
The distance is merely a mathematical variable. It does not matter much in the equation....................
Alas, the only way to live on the moon is permanent relocation.
Some day, we’ll need a colony on the moon, to help build rings around the Sun, for after out population on Earth passes a few hundred billion. Until then...
Building below ground gives some insulation against solar radiation, too. They are unprotected by our magnetic field. They’ll need to do that on Mars, too, I believe, for the same reasons. No magnetic field.
Every Village needs its Village IDIOT..................
“Other than the spectacular view from there, what advantage is there to living long-term on the moon?”
I’ve thought for many years it would be nice to send our worst criminals there one-way, like Botany Bay (not the space ship).
It worked ok for Australia, although perhaps not so much for the residents already previously there. On the moon, they wouldn’t displace anyone.
Read “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” by Robert Heinlein..................
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Acrobatic sex in low gravity?
Ping.
See Post #29...........
Ping.
What you did there.......I see it!............
I heard some conversation last night on George Nouri’s show about the Mars thing. Uh, I don’t think I’ll be volunteering to take that one on. I’d miss my dog too much and I don’t even have one anymore.
Back in the 1960s, the US Army had Project Horizon, which never came into fruition. One could dust-off the plans, make some updates...
Dear NASA, there is no air or water on the moon. It does not seem wise to build in an area that does not contain those things.
With today’s technology, Project Horizon plans would probably be as obsolete as plans for a Conestoga Wagon Train..............
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