The New Frontier: Lunar Industrialisation — Building a Factory on the Moon
Part 4 of 6 in the New Frontier series. The Moon Is Not a Destination 384,400 km. A little under two light-seconds. Far enough that a radio message takes just over a second each way, close enough that we have sent twelve humans there and brought them all back alive. The Moon has been sitting in our sky for 4.5 billion years, and for most of human history, it was nothing more than a navigation aid and a reason to write poetry. ...