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
Project Horizon at Astronautix
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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
LESA at Astronautix
Image credit: Boeing
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ARTIST’S CONCEPTION OF A SCIENTIFIC BASE ON THE MOON AND A DIFFUSE NEBULA IN THE CONSTELLATION CASSIOPEIA
Image credit: NASA LRC
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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
LESA at Astronautix
Image credit: Boeing
Image source: Numbers Station
Exploring Tomorrow in Space
Thomas Becker
Sterling, 1972
ALSS at Astronautix
Image credit: NASA
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Lockheed’s Extended Lunar Operations was an extensive lunar base development program that would (after Ranger, Surveyor, and Apollo) have begun with the delivery of ELO modules by Saturn C-5s in 1969, an interim lunar exploratory base constructed in mid 1971 and a permanent base complete by 1975.
Image credit: Lockheed
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