Today I will begin a look at thoughts about human exploration of the Moon after Apollo, skimming over some earlier things but leading up to where we are now, planning for Artemis landings within a few years, possibly as soon as early 2028 (but still some big hurdles to jump before that can happen). My focus is on sites and activities, NOT engineering or politics.
I begin with a 1984 JSC study called Lunar Surface Return...
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Lunar Surface Return included many ideas about what might be done on the Moon, though they all seemed very far in the future. This map shows a long (4000 km) traverse in a pressurized rover over an unspecified long period. See it here:
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1985lbsa.conf..223C/0000223.000.html
The authors were Mark Cintala of JSC and Paul Spudis and B. Ray Hawke. Cintala is still working and will be at LPSC, but sadly Paul and B. Ray are no longer with us.
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Phil Stooke
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