As humanity continues to grow, the idea of expanding beyond Earth becomes more appealing. There are commercial and practical reasons to harvest the Moon’s resources, such as He-3, a cleaner fuel source, as well as setting up the Moon as a building block for further space exploration. This project explored the problems and possible solutions as we need to nourish and protect astronauts from the Moon’s harsh environment and to transform it into a more suitable place for life.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Ritter, Christopher Thomas
• Nagy, Matthew A.
• Hirwa, Abraham

Subject

• Infrastructure
• Innovation
• Sustainability
• Community
• Environment

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-073120-224717

Parola chiave

• Social Studies of Science and Technology

Advisor

• Humi, Mayer

Year

• 2020

Date created

• 2020-07-31

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright