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Building Habitats on the Moon

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There have been numerous studies on lunar bases and settlements that have summarized the respective current thinking on the challenges of returning to the Moon, with the purpose of long-term and permanent settlements. As might be expected with an endeavor that is always many years in the future and where much of the data is limited and not current, there is a bit of repetitiveness. There is a critical need for data. Fortunately, the ISS has gathered data on human life in microgravity and there have been autonomous missions to the Moon since Apollo that have gathered data to help scientists and engineers better understand and characterize the lunar surface and environment.

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    This is one of the advantages of doing nothing. It is that as time goes by, not only is it easier to do nothing, it is also easier to do something better.

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    Transcendence – a combination of spirituality (unity with nature, inner harmony, detachment from material desires) and universalism (protecting the environment, wisdom, peace).

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    Eukaryote – any organism having as its fundamental structural unit a cell type that contains specialized organelles in the cytoplasm, a membrane-bound nucleus enclosing genetic material organized into chromosomes, and an elaborate system of division by mitosis or meiosis, a characteristic of all life forms except bacteria, blue-green algae, and other primitive microorganisms.

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Benaroya, H. (2018). Habitat studies. In: Building Habitats on the Moon. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68244-0_5

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