9/19/2023 0 Comments Logistics of the moon village![]() ![]() ![]() But mining in space will be something in the future as tourism will be. I hope we will not build on Mars or moon for people to stay there forever. And the moon can be a test bed to go to Mars. And the moon can be also a very nice place for planetary defense of the Earth, as an outpost to observe the universe, as an early warning station for asteroids, meteorites coming toward the Earth and, in the far future, also to use the moon as a base for some countermeasures. If you build an observatory and a radio telescope, you can have a better view into space, into the universe, because you are in the shadow of the moon. The far side of the moon is not as investigated as other parts. There are discussions to helium-3 from the moon. How to make 3-D printing with the moon material in low gravity and so on. We need new technologies and we have already, in the International Space Station, developed a lot of things which work in microgravity which we can then also use on the surface of the moon. There might be an institution which is interested to do some research on the surface of the moon, but do not have the possibility to go there. So, what do you provide? Transportation, logistics on the surface, navigation on the surface, would you like to look for energy, harvesting the energy or doing some in-situ resource utilization with 3-D printing and so on. We have more than 150 signatures on the declaration to be part of the Moon Village. We will have the first missions under the umbrella of Moon Village this year. Wörner spoke to me by phone from his office at the European Space Agency headquarters in Paris. Scientists in China are eager to share Earth science data, and ESA astronauts are learning Chinese, he notes. Wörner is not naïve to those and other sources of tensions, but he sees a desire to cooperate, too. Europe wants to enlist collaborators to establish a Moon Village research station the Trump administration wants to send astronauts to the moon while keeping Mars as the ultimate goal the White House also would eliminate funding for some Earth science instruments that European scientists had been counting on. That’s the view of German educator and engineer Jan Wörner, who sees the European Space Agency he leads as uniquely positioned to serve as an international facilitator among such competitors as China, Russia and the U.S. The space-faring countries are going to need to work together if they are to achieve their ambitions for the 21st century. Education: Civil engineering degree from the Technical University of Berlin and master’s level degree from the Technical University of Darmstadt. ![]()
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