Missions sending astronauts to the Moon could be a precursor for farther-flung trips—to Mars
module is intended for launch in 2022 and subsequent components would go up in a series of missions using both commercial andin 2024 with its Moon-bound astronauts, it will dock with a partially completed space station. There is no official cost for the, it would be a surprise if the lunar space station cost less than several tens of billions of dollars. In light of all this, Dr Zubrin’s approach starts to look attractive.
The Moon is also a good place to hide radio telescopes from the deluge of radio waves coming from Earth’s surface. There, they will be able to pick up signals that are otherwise swamped—particularly, radiation from the earliest days of the universe, which may encode details of the origin of everything.
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