ESA Planning To Build An International Village... On The Moon!

The future of space travel needs a new vision. Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever. If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on... My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place. And this place would be on the Moon. In the Moon Village we would like to combine the capabilities of different spacefaring nations, with the help of robots and astronauts. The participants can work in different fields, perhaps they will conduct pure science and perhaps there will even be business ventures like mining or tourism.

The future of space travel needs a new vision. Right now we have the Space Station as a common international project, but it won't last forever. If I say Moon Village, it does not mean single houses, a church, a town hall and so on... My idea only deals with the core of the concept of a village: people working and living together in the same place. And this place would be on the Moon. In the Moon Village we would like to combine the capabilities of different spacefaring nations, with the help of robots and astronauts. The participants can work in different fields, perhaps they will conduct pure science and perhaps there will even be business ventures like mining or tourism.