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Some time back I posted a link to this article about a Northrup Grumman study of a lunar train. I used a lot of the same reasoning about dust when I came up with a lunar train concept in 1979, and I just found this concept model I built of a freight boxcar. I did a lot of drawings and made notes, but the model is (amazingly) all that survives.

#space#nasa#DARPA

🌕 CHINA
🔴 China, Russia may build nuclear reactor on Moon by 2035

🔸 Project would power ILRS lunar base at south pole.
🔸 Chang’e-8 (2028) will prepare infrastructure; solar + nuclear combo.
🔸 China-Russia space cooperation deepens amid Western tensions.
🔸 Future “555 Project” to involve 50 nations, 5,000 researchers.

Damn if these AI generated images aren't getting better. Popped this prompt into Google's ImageFX and have a SF pulp book cover!

The prompt: A low angle of a landscape of the moon as if the camera was there. Very stark lighting, with strong shadows cast over the craters and mountains in the background. Stylized as a 1950's pulp novel cover. A brushed silver rocket ship stands in the foreground. A very large lunar mining colony is in the middle ground. A tracked capsul-shaped rover is returning to the colony from the ship. Spacesuited figures are near the bottom of the ship.