Rather, the term ‘village’ in this context refers this: a community created when groups join forces without first sorting out every detail, instead simply coming together with a view to sharing interests and capabilities. The individual modules will be inflatable, enabling them to be compressed for transport via rocket and then inflated to their full size on site. By ‘Moon Village’ we do not mean a development planned around houses, some shops and a community centre. Upon completion, the study will be made public with the goal of inspiring technological developments relating to the long-term and sustainable exploration of the lunar and Martian surfaces. Foster + Partners is part of a consortium set up by the European Space Agency to explore the possibilities of 3D printing to construct lunar habitations. The Moon Village is based on a set of habitable modules that can be transported to the Moon separately and seamlessly linked on site in a variety of configurations. The new MOC will build on the existing partnership by introducing a new study within the ESA’s Concurrent Design Facility to focus on the development of the habitation modules. Last year, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced plans for building a permanent lunar basecalled Moon Village which would be a step forward as the International Space Station (ISS) is. The site at the South Pole receives near-continuous daylight throughout the lunar year and there are nearby water-ice deposits that could be used to produce breathable air and rocket propellant for transportation and industrial activities. The settlement is designed to withstand the extreme conditions of the lunar environment, with a focus on self-sufficiency and resiliency. The pressurised, four-level modules would house four to six people and feature environmental controls and life support systems, logistics management and scientific workstations. The Moon Village would feature habitation modules with a rigid composite frame and an inflatable structural shell placed on the rim of the Shackleton Crater. Inspired by the unparalleled level of cooperation achieved by the International Space Station, the Moon Village represents an extension of this paradigm of deep space activities. Since 2018, SOM and the ESA have been working with faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop the concept of a Moon Village, a large-scale, integrated development envisioned near the lunar South Pole. In 2015, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA), Jan Wrner, introduced the concept of the Moon Village.
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