Lunar Boom Town

It will be expensive to live on the moon. What kinds of business and factorys and export will it take to pay for the necesssary inports? What kinds of skills will be needed? We need to figure all this stuff out before our boomtown[1] will prosper whether in a virtual simulation or actually on the moon.

Help us find out and figure it out by browsing http://spacefuture.com/home.shtml and report back creatively. In the meantime we need some icons for one of our local freight company simulators.

• cisLunarFreighter Java guys requested some jpegs or pngs for graphics! Post samples here or there or somewhere you think appropriate.

• /links to technical papers
• /sites with information

Open Entrepreneurial Ideas

What business could I/you/they/we startup or run on in Lunar Boom Town?

• /LOX Domestic and Exports
• /Luna's Tomatoes, Juice and Picante Sauce
• /Boomtown Ice Skating Rink
• /Steel Production
• /Glass Production
• /Sintered Regolith
• /Rover Repairs & Modification
• /Rover Outback Racing
• /Spacesuit Maintenance Repair & Enhancement
• /Horticulture Nursery
• /Rabit Ranch
• /Chicken Farm
• /Worm Soil Factory
• /Satellite and Computer Wreckers

External Resources:

• http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/
• http://www.wstf.nasa.gov/Associ/Mars/default.htm

Maybe some of our peer teams local designs would be eligible for this NASA design competition or maybe just practice here locally and then go compete globally?

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Space_Settlement_Design_Competition