![]() Talk of sending people back to the moon-for the first time since the Apollo missions ended in the 1970s-has heated up recently. Explorers want to test equipment or produce propellant for voyages to asteroids, Mars, and beyond. Medical researchers want to understand how the human body reacts to extended stays in low gravity. Astronomers want to build radio telescopes on the far side. Planetary scientists want to study its composition to learn about the early solar system and Earth’s origins. These visions may never come to be, but they’re helping ESA think through possible futures. ![]() The firm is designing a moon base in collaboration with the European Space Agency (ESA) and MIT.ĭaniel Inocente, the lead designer, presents schematics and renderings of white puffy pods scattered across the lunar landscape, connected by tubular walkways and surrounded by robots and solar panels and astronauts, all overseen by a recognizable blue orb in the sky. But at its New York City office, architects are working on something even more striking-drawings for SOM’s first extraterrestrial assignment. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is the architectural firm known for designing and engineering Dubai’s Burj Khalifa, the world’s tallest building, such iconic structures being one of the firm’s specialties. Kim Stanley Robinson Built a Moon Base in His Mind.Robots Will Navigate the Moon With Maps They Make Themselves.Engineers and Architects Are Already Designing Lunar Habitats.
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