Getting People to Voyage Out to the Moon or Mars

We want to be contemplating more than just having air and water available when our astronauts or settlers arrive. A warm bed and a hot meal waiting when you walk in is ably ideal. Inflatable habitats are very interesting to us in this regard, as are options like robot construction crews who could bordose the loca rak and weglethin to form shelters or reinforce them. And your best protection against both is a nice, thick layer of mass to substitute in for all that missin atmosphere. Your typical cinder block weighs about 35 pounds on earth, but only about six pounds on the moon. Incidentally, it would be 16 kilograms in both places.

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