It just seems like, at this early stage countries would be better working together on a shared moonbase or moonbase city / hub make a successful, large effort to build a central hub, and then from there make their own smaller research stations further out, gradually colonising more of the moon. It would allow countries with smaller space agencies and private industry to work on specific modules (food, habitation, power, construction / mining), speeding up the process of creating permanent habitability on the moon.Īnd, as a hub of moonbases, would easily allow countries to deal with any critical failures (i.e life support failure just suit up & walk over to the neighbouring base 50-100m away). The ISS has had to deal with limited space for crew members, modules, experiments, etc, but a shared moonbase doesn't really have the same concerns, given it can expand out as required (so long as infrastructure covers said expansion, power, water, oxygen, etc). The craters in question are massive, far more space than what any individual country could make use even with decades of sustained development, and means that individual countries will require development and construction of complete individual infrastructure to operate. There's lot of talk about who gets to claim certain prime crater positions for moonbases, near the poles where there's speculated to be water ice, both shade and sunlight, and more constant hours of sun, however it really just seems like a waste of resources to plan out separate bases and adds some unnecessary risk.
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