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Contents 1 PRELUDE 1.1 Analog Research Stations 1.1.1 Past, Present, Planned analog activities 1.1.2 Architecture Options 1.1.3 Biological support Options 1.1.4 Utility Options 1.1.5 Simulant Options 1.1.6 Research Priorities 1.1.7 other 1.2 Lunar Tourism 1.2.1 Tourism from orbit 1.2.2 Surface tourism 1.3 Economic Geography: chemical, mineralogical, and topographic resources 1.3.1 Unfinished Robotic "Prospecting" 1.3.2 Unfinished Robotic "Exploration" 1.3.3 Surface ground truth probes 1.3.4 Typography Assets 1.4 Planned Lunar Orbiters, Landers, impactors & their science goals 1.4.1 Chang'e I (China) 1.4.2 Chandrayaan I (India) 1.4.3 Selene (Japan) 1.4.4 Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (US-NASA) 1.4.5 LCROSS (US-NASA) 1.4.6 Russian Impactor fleet 1.5 Unaddressed Prospecting and Exploration goals 1.5.1 Unadressed prospecting goals 1.5.2 Unadressed exploration goals 1.6 Predevelopment of Needed Technologies 1.6.1 Special R&D-focused curricula 1.6.2 Masters & doctoral theses topics listings in various disciplines 1.6.3 Spin-up entrepreneurial opportunities 1.6.4 Design contests 1.6.5 College level engineering competitions 1.6.6 Cutting-edge workshops 1.6.7 Hosting specific R&D challenge courses 1.7 Getting Familiar with the Moon 1.7.1 Lunar Maps 1.7.2 Lunar Surface Features 1.7.3 Understanding what you see 1.7.4 Observing the Moon 2 WHERE TO 3 THE RETURN 4 BREAKOUT AGENDA 5 SETTLEMENT GROWTH 6 TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE 7 HEALTHY CITIZENS 8 UNIVERSITY OF LUNA

[edit] PRELUDE

[edit] Analog Research Stations

[edit] Past, Present, Planned analog activities

• Oregon Moonbase
• Drumheller Badlands/Calgary Space Workers Habitat
• Moon Society exercises at MDRS
• MexLunaHab
• NASA mockups
• Seabed stations as an analog of isolation

[edit] Architecture Options

[edit] Biological support Options

[edit] Utility Options

[edit] Simulant Options

[edit] Research Priorities

[edit] other

[edit] Lunar Tourism

[edit] Tourism from orbit

• Loop-the-Moon tours
• Self-contained butterfly landers

[edit] Surface tourism

• Early land facilities, excursion support
• Early land excursions
• Scenic access
• Geological/scenic preserves & Lunar National Parks
• Scenic cableways
• Scenic roads
• Scenic overlooks
• Observation towers
• Tourist concessions
• Crew/passenger operable facilities
• Historical site access
• Settlement circuit
• Development of diverse architectures
• Development of diverse flora and fauna
• Development of diverse cultures
• Limb "peekaboo" locations
• Farside heavens
• The 7 wonders of the Moon
• Suborbital tours for Lunans
• other

[edit] Economic Geography: chemical, mineralogical, and topographic resources

[edit] Unfinished Robotic "Prospecting"

• Elements mapped at medium resolution to date: iron, thorium, hydrogen, calcium
• Need to map all major elements at higher resolution

[edit] Unfinished Robotic "Exploration"

• High resolution topographic contour map from which to identify contiguous areas of easy transit and most logical corridors linking them

Prerequisite for a global map of potential highway and railway corridors

Prerequisite for delisting interesting sites to that are access challenged

• Orbital mapping of subsurface voids

Local and irregular voids; possible gas pockets

Meandering linear voids: lavatubes

[edit] Surface ground truth probes

• Verify, quantify, qualify. and assess expected polar ice deposits in various crater permashade areas around both poles
• Explore suspected openings into lavatubes
• Final exploration of sites on the short list for an outpost installation
• Crater central peak sampling

[edit] Typography Assets

• Using Lavatubes
• Inflatables, factories, warehousing, agriculture, archiving
• Using Rilles
• Using Craters
• Using Catennae
• other

[edit] Planned Lunar Orbiters, Landers, impactors & their science goals

[edit] Chang'e I (China)

[edit] Chandrayaan I (India)

[edit] Selene (Japan)

[edit] Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (US-NASA)

[edit] LCROSS (US-NASA)

[edit] Russian Impactor fleet

[edit] Unaddressed Prospecting and Exploration goals

[edit] Unadressed prospecting goals

[edit] Unadressed exploration goals

[edit] Predevelopment of Needed Technologies

[edit] Special R&D-focused curricula

[edit] Masters & doctoral theses topics listings in various disciplines

[edit] Spin-up entrepreneurial opportunities

• Development of draft spin-up business plans

[edit] Design contests

[edit] College level engineering competitions

[edit] Cutting-edge workshops

[edit] Hosting specific R&D challenge courses

[edit] Getting Familiar with the Moon

[edit] Lunar Maps

• History of lunar mapmaking
• Online Atlases

Lunar Map (266 Sector)

• Hardcopy Atlases
• Lunar Nomenclature
• The persons after which craters have been named

[edit] Lunar Surface Features

• List of lunar mare (sea), oceanus (ocean), lacus (lake), sinus (bay), palus (swamp) lava flooded areas
• Lunar Craters

Large walled plains

Craters with central peaks

Flooded craters

Ghost craters

Ray craters

Crater chains

• Lunar rilles
• Lunar Mountains
• Lunar domes
• Other features

[edit] Understanding what you see

• The origin of the Moon
• The history of lunar bombardment
• The great lava floods

[edit] Observing the Moon

• Observing the Moon's familiar nearside
• The possibility of observing much of farside via telescopes in the L4 and L5 Lagrange points
• Lunar Observing Certificate Programs

[edit] WHERE TO

[edit] THE RETURN

[edit] BREAKOUT AGENDA

[edit] SETTLEMENT GROWTH

[edit] TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE

[edit] HEALTHY CITIZENS

[edit] UNIVERSITY OF LUNA

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