Christmas in Selenopolis: While some of the residents of the lunar city enjoy ice skating and other winter sports, other citizens are visiting the Hall of Astronauts museum, on the left. Others travel on the indoor monorail, seen on the right, visiting friends, or perhaps doing last-minute shopping.
Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers / Space Global
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Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
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Image credit: Krafft Ehricke Papers
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Image credit: United States Army
Image source: Project Horizon Reports, NASM
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Conceptual view of the operations in the equatorial earth orbit. The operation in orbit is principally one of propellant transfer and it not an assembly job. The vehicle being fueled is the third stage of a SATURN II with a lunar landing and return vehicle attached. The third stage of the SATURN II was used in the combination into orbit and has thus expended its propellants. This stage is fueled into orbit by a detachment of approximately ten men after which the vehicle then proceeds on the moon.
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Scientists differ on whether sites should be underground in a lunar crater or “ocean” or if they should be blasted out of the sides of mountains.
The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
by Erik Bergaust
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974
Image credit: United States Army
Image source: Numbers Station
First-stage lunar base. This is the type of shelter proposed for the construction crew responsible for building permanent quarters.
The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
by Erik Bergaust
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
ARTIST’S CONCEPTION OF A SCIENTIFIC BASE ON THE MOON AND A DIFFUSE NEBULA IN THE CONSTELLATION CASSIOPEIA
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A combine of three lunar shelters provides adequate quarters for a construction of eighteen men. It will take many years to complete a major moon colony for 100 or more men-and women.
The Next Fifty Years On The Moon
by Erik Bergaust
G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1974
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
