Posted on 04/26/2017 6:38:01 AM PDT by Red Badger
Tian Yulong, secretary general for China's space agency, confirmed the plans ESA has described its 'Moon Village' as a launching pad for missions to Mars The lunar site could also support space mining missions and even tourism It could also act as a 'pit stop' for the further exploration of deep space
China is talking with the European Space Agency about collaborating on a human settlement on the moon.
The secretary general for China's space agency, Tian Yulong, disclosed the talks today in Chinese state media.
The ESA has previously described its 'Moon Village' as a potential international launching pad for future missions to Mars.
Further details on what the collaboration could entail were not revealed.
But last year, the head of the ESA elaborated on plans to build a village on the moon.
'The future of space travel needs a new vision,' said Jan Woerner.
The concept is a base for lunar exploration by humans and robots, which would act as a stopover for spacecraft, and become a 'village' with mining and even tourism.
'The future of space travel needs a new vision.
'Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever,' said Woerner.
'If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on. No, that would be misleading.
'My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place.
'And this place would be on the Moon.
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There is both................
Thanks, have thought to do that from time to time, but grew disillusioned many years ago with Heinlein when he began writing “libertarian” tomes in the 1960’s. I read I Will Fear No Evil and tried to read Job, but don’t recall reading anything after that, or since.
Looking at his Wikipedia page now, loved all and have most of his early novels, but he lost me starting with his 1960’s books.
Whoever builds the best robots will build the best space colonies.
The basic concept, though, is still good: A sub-surface complex that is modular in design. Since it was the 1960s, the plans included a nuclear power plant. :-)
Gravity.
Cat’s in the kettle at the Peking Moon.
Maybe Matt Damon will set them up to grow potatoes?
I Will Fear No Evil and Job were basically fantasy off-the-reservation books...............
I don’t want to cause the Chinese any problems but could we make a deal to trade something for the leftist communist Hollywood, media and democrats to inhabit the village?
But will they deliver?
I think the idea is to get away from them, not take them with us!.................
Over 50 posts, and no reference to the old Patrick McGoohan series yet?
What Patrick McGoohan series?....................
’ The Prisoner ‘ which took place...in The Village
Never heard of it.................
Isn’t American research and technology great, the research and technology Bill Clinton transferred to his Chinese Communist buddies for campaign cash.
Must be outdated since the Chinese are talking to the Europeans...............
The experts say Clinton jumped the Chinese forward 25 years. Before Clinton’s transfer, they could not send anything into orbit.
Maybe I misunderstood. Of course, send them all to a far away planet is what I was trying to say!
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