network will include landing and launching pads for spacecraft. Each landing area will need to have an area of approximately 45 square meters (Sadeh, 1992, pg. 229). The landing area needs to be at least two kilometers from any critical facilities. This will keep dust from being blown into the other structures by the landings and launchings of the spacecraft. However, this large distance between the landing area and the rest of the base will require a lunar transportation network. This network will begin as a series of roads, which will created by fusing the regolith into a hard glasslike surface (Mendell, 1985, pg. 402). The last new facility to be built at this time will be the agricultural facility, which will be the main source of food for the base. Various vegetables will be grown within the structure. The selection of these vegetables will be based upon . (Conerly, 2008). At this stage in the base development, the base will cover 4,214 square meters and require just over a megawatt of power. This is also the phase during which the nuclear power facility is introduced. 2.7: Phase IV he initial stages of the base have been successfully completed. The mining and refining of regolith have been implemented, and a reliable source of oxygen, helium-3, and various metals is now able to be stored and used. The ability to use metals, such as titanium, aluminum, iron, and magnesium, means that the base can be expanded using materials already found on the moon. The need for raw materials or even prefabricated materials from earth is now a thing of the past since the lunar base has access tonew building materials. saving money, the by exporting excess oxygen to low earth orbit (LEO) and helium-3 to earth for use in .
network will include landing and launching pads for spacecraft. Each landing area will need to have an area of approximately 45 square meters (Sadeh, 1992, pg. 229). The landing area needs to be at least two kilometers from any critical facilities. This will keep dust from being blown into the other structures by the landings and launchings of the spacecraft. However, this large distance between the landing area and the rest of the base will require a lunar transportation network. This network will begin as a series of roads, which will created by fusing the regolith into a hard glasslike surface (Mendell, 1985, pg. 402). The last new facility to be built at this time will be the agricultural facility, which will be the main source of food for the base. Various vegetables will be grown within the structure. The selection of these vegetables will be based upon . (Conerly, 2008). At this stage in the base development, the base will cover 4,214 square meters and require just over a megawatt of power. This is also the phase during which the nuclear power facility is introduced. 2.7: Phase IV he initial stages of the base have been successfully completed. The mining and refining of regolith have been implemented, and a reliable source of oxygen, helium-3, and various metals is now able to be stored and used. The ability to use metals, such as titanium, aluminum, iron, and magnesium, means that the base can be expanded using materials already found on the moon. The need for raw materials or even prefabricated materials from earth is now a thing of the past since the lunar base has access tonew building materials. saving money, the by exporting excess oxygen to low earth orbit (LEO) and helium-3 to earth for use in .
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