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Old 23-March-2008, 01:00 AM
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Default Building a Base on the Moon: Part 4 - Infrastructure and Transportation

In this exciting but challenging period of space exploration, the time is fast approaching for serious design concepts for the first habitats that will be built on the lunar landscape. In previous articles, we have examined the hazards associated with such an endeavour, we have looked at the structures available to us, we have even [...]

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We're doing this! We're really doing this!
We're planning this, we're really planning this. Not to sound cynical, but I'm cynical.

I've seen too many Big Plans go nowhere to get too enthusiastic yet.
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