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Colonization of the Moon

Cosmos has always been a source of wonderment for the mankind.


Humankind has gazed out at the stars and has searched for their
destiny in the stars. For thousands of years, men have gazed at the
heavens and have imagined what is out there. Especially in the 19th
century many Science Fiction Writers like Jules Verne has symbolized
going to the moon or to the Mars for the mankind. With the coming of
the 20th century, mankind has seen the beginning of the Space Age Era
with the launching of the Sputnik Spacecraft in 1957. After the success
of the lunar landing in 1969, traveling to the moon has become a reality
and forming a colony on the moon has become a realistic possibility.
Colonization of the Moon is an important event that symbolizes the
dominion that mankind can have over space. Many feel that it is the
destiny of mankind to wander into space to colonize the Moon, Mars
and perhaps the beyond. With the growing population of today, and
the resources in Erath dwindling, colonizing The Moon and the beyond
may be the only answer to mankinds salvation.
Colonization of the Moon would require first of all, spacecraft that are
reusable for transport between the Earth and the Moon. The most
feasible scheme discussed by scientists today is the fact that the Earth
launchings of equipment and personnel would be done by Titan
Rockets, which have capability of transporting tons of payload into
Earth orbit. These powerful boosters, which use liquid hydrogen as a
fuel, would allow equipment and people to be ferried into a High Earth
Orbit (HEO). Once this orbit is achieved, the equipment and personnel
will be transferred to a docking space station like the International
Space Station that is being constructed today. However there would
have to be daily flights from Earth to the Orbital Platform so that every
piece of equipment can be joined together quickly and efficiently.
The second phase would require usage of spacecraft between moon
and the Earth to transfer these equipment and personnel. Once the
transfer is complete, the journey can be between Moon and Earth quite
short, maybe a week. Of course, this wont be possible with just a
single ship, as there will need to be many ships that will carry
equipment and new personnel to the colonies on to the Moon. Once the
equipment and personnel arrive at the moon, the real task would begin.
There would need to be huge domes that are able to keep air and
pressure inside. Even with Todays technology, such feats are possible.
In fact in Arizona and in several other locations, people are forming
space habitats to experiment living in pressurized domes. The main
problem in the colonization of the moon would be water and oxygen of
course. However, with special life support synthesis, it would be
possible to produce water and oxygen in the future. At the least
oxygen molecules would be brought over in a dense packed form; and
then they would be expanded to fill the dome and to combine with

hydrogen (which is abundant in outer space) to make water for the


colonists. Also Since when a human being exhales, carbon dioxide
comes out; it would be possible to filter Carbon Dioxide which contains
two atoms of oxygen to create new oxygen molecules to breathe again.
Thus, it would be possible to filter the same air over and over again.
This is an important task as it allows the colonization of the Moon to be
a possible reality. Since there is no oxygen on the Moon, it would be
impossible for the colonists to stay alive without the possibility of
filtering the air.
With the technologies stated above, the colonization of the moon is not
such a distant thing. Of course, there are some difficulties that need to
be ironed out but in time all difficulties can be overcome easily.
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