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Gene Cernan on the Moon in the Apollo 17 lander with lunar dust stuck on his suit. Lunar dust is highly abrasive and can cause damage to human lungs, nervous, and cardiovascular systems. [1] Lunar habitation is any human habitation on the Moon. [2] Lunar habitation is provided by surface habitats, possibly as part of a moonbase. [3]
The Lunar I-Hab [3] (formerly known as International Habitation Module, International Habitat or I-HAB) is designed as a habitat module of the Lunar Gateway station, to be built by the European Space Agency (ESA) in collaboration with the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA.
The Lunar Gateway, or simply Gateway, is a space station which is planned to be assembled in orbit around the Moon.The Gateway is intended to serve as a communication hub, science laboratory, and habitation module for astronauts as part of the Artemis program.
The Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO), [4] [5] also called the Minimal Habitation Module (MHM) and formerly known as the Utilization Module, is a habitation module that is part of the Lunar Gateway. [6] It will be built by Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.
The lunar surface facility would have grown to an 18-crew "advanced base" in 2013–2014, consisting of five habitation modules, a geochemical laboratory, chemical/biological lab, geochemical/petrology lab, a particle accelerator, a radio telescope, lunar oxygen, ceramics and metallurgy plants, two shops, three power units (90% lunar-materials ...
Currently the main areas of research are being undertaken by Sierra Space and NASA.NASA is currently studying inflatable lunar bases with the planetary surface habitat and airlock unit [5] which is in an early prototype phase, and has conceptual proposals for utilizing expandable-technology space structures in cislunar and interplanetary crewed exploration spacecraft.
The base's main habitation module would first be delivered to the Moon. Later automatic spacecraft, including the Lunokhod rover, would be delivered, followed by a human crew and more modules. For the safety of the crew, the habitation modules might have been covered with regolith. In order to allow for exploration or repositioning of the base ...
The lunar habitat was designed to have an inflatable hull and was scheduled to be delivered in advance of the crew. [3] To protect against cosmic rays and a possible solar particle event , the hull of the lunar habitat to be at minimum 5 grams per square centimetre (1.1 oz/in 2 ) thick and filled with either water or polyethylene . [ 1 ]