Where To Start

Where do we start building the foundations of a space dwelling society?

Materials we get from earth must be limited to the first few stations we build. We can’t strip-mine the planet to build our settlements.

Moon Base

Building a moon base is step one towards colonizing space. The moon has all the raw material we need to build space settlements

The moon has all the resources needed to build a base capable of being a jumping-off point to the solar system. All the raw materials needed for a sustainable moon base such as oxygen, silicone, iron, calcium, aluminum, magnesium and titanium are plentiful in lunar regolith. To a lesser extent but still widely available are: water, nitrogen, CO, CO2, hydrogen, helium3, helium4 and methane.

With an initial investment of one trillion dollars for: equipment, excavators, solar power units, habitats, refineries, and we will need the parts to build a mass-driver so that we may export raw-material to build space stations colony ships soon the moon will become self-sustaining growing all the food and water to supply all the needs of its colonists. Eventually the moon will be the center of manufacturing during the first decades of space colonization.

The next step would be to build our first self-sufficient habitat in orbit near the moon. With 1g gravity the station will house 300 workers living in the habitat. Some will be research and support staff living and working on the station full time. Others will live on the station but work on the surface and nearby space.

First building the initial infrastructure to move resources off the moon and send to where its needed. Once this is complete the minimum infrastructure will be in place to build the first few stations.

To go further we will need more resources. Thankfully we have all we need in the asteroid belt. Capturing an asteroid and putting it in cis-lunar space for our near-earth stations.

Eventually we will build stations in the asteroid belt. Once we get to this point there will be no limits to our expansion for the foreseeable future.