Podcaster: Steve Nerlich
Title: Dear CA #102 – Back to the Moon
Organization: Cheap Astronomy
Links: http://cheapastro.com
Description:Lunar activities – planned and speculative
Dear Cheap Astronomy – Are there any missions to the Moon before Artemis?
So yep, were going back to the Moon, sometime soon. NASA’s first Artemis human landing mission, the crew including a woman and a person of colour (or heck why not a woman of colour, why not two) is now scheduled for 2026, remembering it was scheduled 2025 last year. But anyhow, even before that happens, whenever it happens, the CLPSs, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, will start to arrive.
Dear Cheap Astronomy – What will the first lunar colony look like?
Well, it will probably be small and cramped and not really a colony since no-one is really going to want to spend their lives there, what with Earth just three days away – so we’re probably talking sustained human activity rather than real colonization. As we’ve discussed before , it’s going to be a very long time before we have space colonies where anyone is going to want to give birth or to grow old.
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