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to build a permanent base on the moon it's an incredible plan and we're here
in Cologne at the european astronaut center to meet some of the people who
might make it happen
so how do you build a base on the moon public
this is the target the place where half a century ago Russians first landed and
Americans first walked today the moon is the focus of fresh ambition from the
director-general of the European Space Agency informing my intention is to
build up a permanent base station on the moon
meaning that it's an open station for different member states four different
states around the globe upon mankind has never had a permanent lunar presence but
the Apollo era showed up with the right commitment giant leaps are possible
we did this in the in the sixties within a decade and today we're in terms of
development technology development were much much further ahead of course we can
do it again I'm not getting the idea is that the moonbase would follow the
International Space Station as a global project human so it will be the
Americans is really the Russians it really is a Chinese it will be the
Indians the Japanese and even more countries were with smaller
contributions
for the moment the concept is short on detail but high on enthusiasm earlier
this month the European astronaut center in cologne hosted a workshop on how to
build a permanent lunar village one key message was that mankind can use the
metals minerals and water ice found on the moon legend blender whistles or
pulled 11 is almost the moon is full of resources we found ice at the lunar
poles and we found areas that are enormous constant daylight and these
places can offer us resources that we can use for construction and to support
the lives of the astronauts on this moon base lovey days that's not the sector
both in their principal French to any moon base as solar and cosmic radiation
micrometeorites and extreme temperatures to counter those threats Irishman eight
and Callie is working on using the lunar soil itself to build protective domes
one of these how does he could potentially use this material to truly
print a habitat structure or building element on the moon and we think you can
our concept is that we a rover would land on the surface noon with the
endplate this at available no more display type system and around after
over then begin to construct dump that provide the protection at oceanside film
so we put down a layer of most interest and without notice entered again and
keep weaknesses to build whatever shook your own the building of course it's not
easy to go to the moon to test out new ideas so scientists look for places with
rocks and dust that a similar like here in the Eiffel volcanic park near cologne
within a double Nicki buzz ya here we have equipment and instruments with
which we want to measure the composition of rocks gosh they are you inviting and
we want to validate how these instruments work by using rocks which
are very close to lunar or Martian rocks volcanic rocks unique
you sure and next reference right in this scenario one of the researchers
plays the role of an astronaut on the lunar surface and his colleague guides
him from a distance captor they want to know how the astronaut interacts with
the base station and hide the spectrometer on their mock-up lunar
lander identifies minerals that could be useful for building and sustaining a
moon base
I'm the astronaut in this simulation so she directed me to a sampling sites you
wanted to sample and and don't me when I had to come back and measure the sample
in front of this little laboratory move near the telescoping the light
conditions are very good at the moment so you don't need to use any
alternatives so it was a really easy to get a good signal
yes you have people yes i'm very happy
so we're going back and this time were planning to stay the commitment to the
moon village from the head of isa sense a powerful message however it could be
20 years before technology is ready to make it happen so there's a huge
development cycle that has to be started again you know from developing the the
Rockets that will take us into orbit that i'll transfer us to the moon and
and landed on the moon and then of course the the bases up that will live
in on the move there so it's really it's the entire suite of technology that we
need to develop acer is not alone
the Chinese plan a lunar sample return mission Russia is developing a robotic
Lander Withey support and NASA's Orion capsule with an Easter service module
should fly around the moon before 2020 and that diversity is key to your
burners vision the advantage of the idea of more village is that we don't need a
big amount of funding at the beginning that means we can start with a small
ending mission which many countries are already planning up to of huge
investment for instance for some telescope radio telescope on the far
side of the Moon so it's it's a multiple users by multiple users but a single
place
that place is the moon scientifically interesting technologically challenging
and a superb testing ground
away from the moon now and to Mars our next month the exomars mission sets off
towards the red planet looking for signs of methane one of the top scientists
behind the project explains why in destination mass
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hello my name is an Korean vandella my new charge of the nomads instrument
onboard the exomars mission which be heading to Mars sings
yeah and some of the box there three spectrometers withdrawal analyze the
composition of the atmosphere of Mars anything in particular anything is
important because an earth it's linked to biological processes the filament
beauty in the poor girl hasn't been enough tangible evidence to be able to
say there is life there was life on Mars difficult different instruments on
different missions have already observed me thing on Mars Curiosity observations
from Earth for PFS on Mars Express but the requested marks above all of these
measurements so exomars will resolve the main problem once and for all
by using instruments which are dedicated to that gas give you an original
statistics
the Blues crispy that the stress is rising in the team you have to imagine
that an international team has been working on this instrument for several
years that Dawson were waiting for data we're waiting for our instrument to be
in orbit around Mars so the stress in the coming months is going to be intense
adults
that's all for now next month were behind the scenes that the launch of
exomars in Kazakhstan see you then
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