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If it's a permanent colony, then a fixed moonbase is a good start.
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December 18th, 2009 at 12:56 pm a moonbase is a good idea?
Latest Buzz: NASA to Get Bigger Budget and New Launcher | Universe Today 2009
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Like MOO, the moonbase was a series of bubbles encompassing an environment that would sustain the lives of the people enclosed within it.
First Warning McCaffrey, Anne 2005
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Then again, the only two I know are Megatron and Optimus Prime from when I was a kid, though I heard about construction bots that combined and some kind of moonbase bot and bots that could change into two different vehicles and dinosaur bots, but I don’t remember anything else about those other ones.
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Bay does not like chick robots. 2009
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Don't forget that in the first episode of Space: 1999, the moonbase was playing host to the final crew training missions for a relatavistic crewed interstellar probe (the so-called 'Ultra-Probe' mission). sean
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"Don't forget that in the first episode of Space: 1999, the moonbase was playing host to the final crew training missions for a relatavistic crewed interstellar probe (the so-called 'Ultra-Probe' mission)."
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After first taking a look at spiral spaceplanes, a Lunar Architecture Team was convened to establish false support for the Administrator's plan to set up a moonbase, and the announcement was made that we'd proceed with Apollo redux on steroids (now reduced to Apollo on vitamins).
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MoLabs can be permanenty manned and resupplied just as easily as a fixed moonbase.
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The goal should be becoming spacefaring - not going to mars, not a moonbase (per se), but becoming spacefaring.
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But the intrinsic value of a moonbase of any sort depends on what you intend to do with the Moon.
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