Poll on NASA's moon base plan

According to the article published in the Chemical & Engineering News weekly of the American Chemical Society on February 5, the success of the plan to base the moon on the US space and aeronautics agency (NASA) depends. into technologies that can harness environmental conditions and natural resources on the moon to create the necessary materials like electricity.

Model of the future base on the moon
(Photo: NASA)

In the article, Susan R. Morrissey, deputy editor of the Chemical & Engineering News weekly discussed the current controversies surrounding issues such as the need to return to the moon, costs, benefits. The science of laying on the moon and whether it will be controlled by NASA or a private industry.

If the project is implemented, it will have to depend on technologies that can utilize the resources available on the moon to build and maintain the operation of this base.

Currently, sponsors for this project face huge costs for creating solar panels and the cost of transporting devices from the earth to the moon. Morrissey also discussed alternative measures to avoid this conundrum.

One of the measures taken was to use lunar rocks and make use of the vacuum environment to create solar panels on the moon. Another method is to install solar panels on the lunar surface to create a large-scale solar power plant that can power this base.

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