Mare Serenitatis Lunar Industrial Colony A Lunar industrial colony with five story housing blocks providing living quarters for a population of 1500 to 2000 people. Support of such operations is based on an ambitious traffic model utilizing LANTR Lunar Shuttle and RNS technology. This scene might result from expanded commercial opportunities afforded by lunar mining of strategic metals, along with the required on-site industrial fabrication of equipment necessary to such operations. My post Reusable Nuclear Shuttle details Dana Andrews’ thoughts on supply and demand when it comes to space colonization and offers a hard-headed look at the economic drivers that humans need to make their presence beyond Earth sustainable. About the image Top Panel: Lunar space port ground operations: After a 24 hour flight from low earth orbit a passenger carrying Cargo-Lander has arrived. Its LANTR trans-lunar stage can be seen in last week’s LANTR Lunar Shuttle. A roll-up docking & elevator tower has mated to the Cargo-Lander allowing its 18 passengers (and crew of two) to disembark into a surface crawler for transportation to the colony facility seen in the background. Once the passenger transport has trundled off, the elevator-tower will disengage and the roll-up gantry will be positioned to retrieve the cargo module and deposit it upon the waiting flat-bed-tractor. A flight and traffic control tower can be seen at extreme right. Middle Panel: Detail of duel housing block modules, each provides rental housing for about 200 residents along with retail shopping and a food court. Each duel block module, like the industrial fabrication plants and the Lunar Oxygen processing facilities below, are owned and operated under private commercial investment. This is a depiction of the first steps away from publicly-funded space operations towards a more mature commercial space-faring culture. Bottom Panel LUNOX (Lunar Oxygen) processing facilities. 21 degrees north latitude, 29 degrees east longitude, in Mare Serenitatis, is the site of "a vast deposit" of oxygen-rich glass beads. Borowski and Dudzinski estimated that the site might contain as much as 700 million tons of LUNOX. The material might be collected by scoop-mining with large grader-style harvesters and transported to the processing facility. Here a grader-harvester is seen rolling off one of three dump-collector-chutes where it will be mechanically separated and chemically heated in a gaseous separation process. To support weekly LANTR commuter flights, the processing facility would need to produce 11,000 tons of LUNOX per year.

Very well done! Great design work.

Awesome! Fantastic modeling. Great lighting. Corrie

impressive work. Happy Holidays!

I think you did a great job on the moon installation and the only thing that bothers me is that there are no tracks of any kind from where the vehicles have been. Doing tracks is one of the hardest things to do when it comes to the moon, believe me I know from first hand experience. Over all I think you have given a very plausible view of what could possibly be one day if our (so-called) leaders make the correct decision and that is to move out beyond LEO. I guess only time will tell because this present administration has not a clue, they would rather make Muslims feel better about themselves then do what they were actually setup to do and that is EXPLORATION! I believe we need someone in the Whitehouse that sees the bigger picture and is willing to put NASA on the right path. Going to an asteroid and leaving everything up to private industries does not get it for me. We had already launched the new CEV and it works only to have the entire program scrapped. The man is an idiot in my opinion and I hope and pray that this is a one-term president! Sorry for ranting but when I see what could possible be only to know that the powers to be has not a clue it just make me angry. All the best to you and yours and a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Cheers, David

Thanks David, I agree wholeheartedly with your critique, creating the tracks (which would be there) is very problematic in Bryce, I've tried numerous solutions -- it is extremely difficult to get results that look convincing. Your rant is most welcome! No need to apologize. After the implementation of the TSA "screening procedures" in the wake of the November second elections (which saw a massive repudiation of the Liberal/Progressive agenda) it should be obvious that what we are seeing is the implementation of a Saul Alinsky/Cloward-Piven Strategy. Scraping Constellation after massive investment was a criminal waste of resources and it hits home for those of us who understand that the future of humanity depends on our ability to leave LEO and eventually expand industrial infrastructure into the solar system. My main goal in this mini-series is to infect people with the vision of what accomplishments are actually within our reach -- I hope to keep these visions of a bright and limitless tomorrow alive.

EXCELLENT!

WE NEED MORE MEN LIKE YOU IN THIS DIRT BALL! Thanks for a wonderful visualization of what we could readily achieve in not so long time, if our goverments (GLOBALLY) didn't have an ass for a head... Wonderful work. Tried boolean trackmarks? they can do the trick from a distance

Awesome installation