Introduction
There is general agreement in the space community that human settlements on the Moon will be an important step toward safely and economically venturing beyond our current LEO space program, with a potential for the settlement of Mars, likely to happen several decades after we return to the Moon. Humans will be key to operating and maintaining intelligent “lunar” technologies and conducting science activities. Creating safe habitats for the long-time survival of humans in a totally new environment poses large problems for science and engineering, as well as the myriad of physiological and psychological challenges. This paper presents some important issues with a great number of internal relationships that are mostly still poorly understood.
Perilous Challenges for Surviving on the Moon
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Bernold, L.E., Benaroya, H. (2018). Early Lunar Structures, Engineering. In: Cudnik, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Lunar Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05546-6_125-1
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