China unveils a concept video for an international research base on the moon. Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: China Central Television (CCTV) | edited by Steve Spaleta ...

A vision of a future Moon settlement assembled from semi-buried inflatable habitats. Sited beside the lunar poles in regions of near-perpetual solar illumination, mirrors positioned above each ...

The lunar base camp concept seems to be pretty thin gruel compared ... long-term ambitions for the moon than NASA has articulated yet. Even the Chinese ILRS concept falls short of the futurist ...

NASA and Thales Alenia just rolled out their first Moon Base concept for the Artemis project. Why do we need a tiny module when we have over a thousand cubic meters in Starship? Does this base have ...

The concept aims to address problems ... and maximise solar power efficiency, the base would be built on the edge of Shackleton crater at the moon’s south pole where it would face the sun ...

On the US side of the curtain, concepts for Moon bases have been drawn up since the 1950s, with a strong interest from the military. During the 1980s and 1990s, plans were floated to have a ...

A rail network on the Moon that connects different lunar bases could be realised within the next decade after a US government agency approved the concept for development. The US Defence Advanced ...

NASA's 21st-century moon program began during ... of space exploration for decades to come. The lunar base was the most audacious concept from the AAP. The congressional hearings for NASA's ...

The Space Micro-Reactor Concept Model was presented at the UK Space Conference in Belfast. It is the result of GBP2.9 million (USD3.7 million) funding from the UK Space Agency into how nuclear power ...