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 […]

M is for mole, which is what many people, even some prominent space advocates, think settlers of the Moon are going to be.