Lunar Base

Lunar Base

First Lunar Outpost

First Lunar Outpost – 1992

LUNOX – 1993

NASA/JSC LUNOX proposes reducing the cost of maintaining the First Lunar Outpost by producing liquid oxygen propellant from lunar soil.

LANTR- 1997

NASA/LRC proposal combined liquid oxygen mined from the moon with a LOX-Augmented NTR earth-to-moon shuttle to reduce launch requirements for a lunar base.

LESA Lunar Base – 1968

Lockheed Extended Lunar Operation – 1963

Lunar Outpost – 1989

NSTS External Tank Lunar Habitat – 1990

Project Horizon – 1950

Project Selena

1964 Douglas proposal for a 1000-man lunar base in of support of unmanned Mars cargo delivery missions.

Selenopolis

Krafft Ehricke’s multi-decade study of the industrial development of the Moon.

Lunar Orbit Station

Convair Lunar Station

Lunar Space Operations Center – 1979

Lunar Orbit Station – 1975

Lunar Reconnaissance

Disney RM-1

Convair MLRV

Convair Solar Powered Spaceship – 1959

von Braun Round-The-Moon-Ship