Humanity is preparing to expand its reach into deep space shortly, beginning by revisiting the Moon. This project explores the concept of colonizing Earth’s closest neighbor, the Moon, to help serve humanity’s needs. To accomplish this, this paper presents an overview of the U.S. Space Policy and information on topics such as current NASA programs, lunar volatiles such as helium-3, and fusion reactors. This paper analyses topics such as a viable location for a lunar base, the advantages of the Moon for humanity, electromagnetic acceleration in space, the use of robotics, and the sociopolitical effects of a lunar colony. This overview seeks to aid in selecting research topics for future papers, allowing for a more in-depth analysis of the concepts presented.

• 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

• Scalise, Michael

Subject

• Environment
• Industry
• Sustainability
• Energy
• Well-Being

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-071422-161039
• 70851

Advisor

• Humi, Mayer

Year

• 2022

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
• 13 - Climate Action

Date created

• 2022-07-14

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Source

• E-project-071422-161039

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2022-12-20