Sentence examples for a lunar settlement from inspiring English sources
The crater was determined to have especially rich concentrations of ilmenite, a titanium oxide mineral that could potentially be used in the future by a lunar settlement for extracting oxygen.
The CEO told the Washington Post that he believes it's time for the U.S. to not only make its way back to the Moon – but also to stick around this time, with the goal of establishing a "permanently inhabited lunar settlement".
At a conference in June on lunar settlements, Dr. James S. Logan, a former chief of medical operations at the Johnson Space Center and a founder of Space Medicine Associates, a medical consulting group, pointed out that the previous missions to the Moon involved just 600 total man-hours on the surface, a figure likely to be exceeded on the first return mission.
Large lunar settlements will require use of local resources.
The hardware from later missions will likely be re-purposed or recycled for future lunar settlements.
Sinterator robotics 3D printing technology proposed by NASA JPL enables construction of future generations of large lunar settlements with little imported material and the use of solar energy.
The agency would then retire and dispose of the space station in 2016 and use the freed-up money to develop the heavy-lift Ares V rocket, a lunar lander and the technology for building a Moon settlement.
How many miles long is a lunar?
Not exactly a lunar landing.
It might be a lunar landing module.
