The practicality of lunar tourism is a function not just of consumer interest, but by the physical realities of the mission. These include orbital mechanics, energy requirements and mission duration. The orbital transfer used, for reasons of safety, would be the same as used in Apollo, the Hohmann orbital transfer, and from that energy and fuel requirements may be calculated. The Moon and the launch site on Earth (or the position of a Space Station, if it was from that that departure for the Moon occurred) would need to be in precise alignment.
The Moon is lacking the basic ingredients of life, therefore it will never be a world with life.
For any manned colony in space, the elements of oxygen, carbon and nitrogen are essential to life. These elements are common on Mars. This directly means Mars is a plausible site for manned colonies. It is also why the Moon is Continue reading The Moon is Lacking the Ingredients of Life→
This is an interesting subject that I found while looking for surface anomalies that could provide a basis for a plot or scene – the crash sites of the Saturn boosters. The LRO found the Apollo fourth stages. And they are not normal craters. Continue reading Secrets of the Saturn IVB craters.→
Seven percent of meteors are metallic. Seven percent of the meteors hitting the Moon have been metallic. It is known that by far the largest percentage of this hit with sufficient velocity to vaporize, and their metal became yet another layer on surface dust and dirt. But why wouldn’t there be a few that didn’t vaporize?
One such meteor was found sitting on the surface on Mars. Of course, there is some air there to brake the incoming mass, as is the case on Earth. But could such a meteor be located on the Moon? Continue reading Could a metallic meteor be found on the Moon?→
Helium 3 is found exclusively in the lunar regolith, where it is implanted by the solar wind. Many scientific proposals and papers on lunar resource mining and extraction are completely impractical. They represent attempts at adaptation of methods used on Earth. On Earth, chemicals such as fluoride or cyanide may be used in aqueous solutions Continue reading Where might lunar helium 3 deposits be best?→
