Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #102 - Back to the Moon

Hosted by Steve Nerlich. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Are there any missions to the Moon before Artemis? So yep, were going back to the Moon, sometime soon. NASA’s first Artemis human landing mission, the crew including a woman and a person of colour (or heck why not a woman of colour, why not two) is now scheduled for 2026, remembering it was scheduled 2025 last year. But anyhow, even before that happens, whenever it happens, the CLPSs, the Commercial Lunar Payload Services, will start to arrive.   Dear Cheap Astronomy – What will the first lunar colony look like? Well, it will probably be small and cramped and not really a colony since no-one is really going to want to spend their lives there, what with Earth just three days away – so we’re probably talking sustained human activity rather than real colonization. As we’ve discussed before , it’s going to be a very long time before we have space colonies where anyone is going to want to give birth or to grow old.   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at [email protected].