Water Found Deep Inside the Moon

Re:Water Found Deep Inside the Moon by foxylad on Thursday August 24, 2017 @11:41PM (#15095941)

For the journey, yes. But for permanent settlement, in both cases you'll need of the order of years-worth of supplies while you become self-sufficient.

Back on-topic, the discovery of water on the moon makes this more achievable there; otherwise Mars's resources might have actually meant less resources were required.

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Re:Water Found Deep Inside the Moon by adrianN on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:31PM (#15099757)

You don't have to send all the supplies at once though (you shouldn't actually). You can send many small missions, each providing some parts of a Mars base before sending any humans. See for example the Mars Direct plan by Zubrin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Direct

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Re:Water Found Deep Inside the Moon by jhgb on Friday August 25, 2017 @12:50PM (#15099999)

But the presence of water on the Moon is more limited than the presence of CO2 and H2O on Mars. That could be significant for self-sufficiency. Especially if we could find a way to make plastics from CO2 and H2O in a reasonably small mobile device. Just grow your colony out of the stuff you suck out for the atmosphere...

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