Lunar Boom Town/External links

External links

• http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
• http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm

Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?

• International Space Settlement Design Competition
• http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/toc.html
• The Political Economy of Very Large Space Projects
• An animated demonstration of a proposal
• Building a base on the Moon

Useful open/free design tools

• Dia is free software for creating diagrams. It may be useful for process flow and instrumentation diagrams.
• Art of Illusion is a free 3D Modeling and Rendering environment incredibly useful for design visualization.
• Blender is also a 3D Modeling and Rendering environment augmented with exellent import/export data formats involving game development tools and environments.

U.S.G.S. Planetary Data System - Check licensing constraints before using. Summarize here for others. http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/maps.html

Background information

• Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem. [1]
• Possible solution for Lunar and Martian dust.[2]
• TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping. [3]
• http://www.kathryncramer.com/lunar_development/2004/11/maximizing_food.html
• NASA Asteroid Surveys I feel safer already. Might be a motherlode providing supplies to those asteroid miners!
• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Energy_storage
• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Networked_learning
• http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Marketing_Strategy
• Popular Mechanics Series on NASA's Planned Lunar Base[4]

Applicable Google discussion groups

• sci.space.policy
• sci.space.history
• sci.space.tech

Software

• http://freerails.sourceforge.net/

Related news

• April 2008 Minerals mapped on Lunar Surface