Udaipur Lunar Declaration 2004

Foing, B. H.; Bhandari, Narindar; Goswami, J. N.; Participants, Iceum

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2008.03.013

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“…Food for settlers could potentially be grown in orbital facilities at lower cost than on the surface where soils with perchlorates in the surface would eliminate to growth of plants such as potatoes commonly consumed by humans. 12…”

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Moon-Earth: Prospects for a lunar-centric scenario for space development after 2030

Beldavs¹,

Foing²

2023

AAOAJ

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Gerard K. O’Neill idea of large habitats built from outer space resources in his 1974 Physics Today article “The Colonization of Space” resulted in a flurry of speculation and research and development work aimed at use of lunar resources to build large-scale solar-power satellite (SPS) to generate revenue to pay for space colonization. As the enormity of the technical and financial challenges to achieve space colonization research interest began to wane particularly with realization that the U.S. having reached the Moon before the USSR, was no longer driven to achieve more as the Nation faced the Oil Embargo and growing domestic concerns. Currently, the state of technology development and knowledge of lunar resources has created conditions where a lunar centric model of space development appears increasingly feasible offering the possibility of not only more rapid development in outer space, but also to impact long term sustainable development on Earth by reducing the need for terrestrial resources for industrial development in Earth orbits, cislunar space and the Moon. In effect, lunar industrial development can contribute increasingly to achieve sustainable development on Earth. This, however will raise challenges to address governance of space traffic and resource access and use on the Moon as unlike 1974 many countries are developing the capacity to reach and operate in cislunar space and on the Moon.

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Moon-Earth: Prospects for a lunar-centric scenario for space development after 2030

Beldavs¹,

Foing²

2023

AAOAJ

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“…A lunar rock considered as a potential substrate for a plant growing. The European Space Agency and other space agencies have outlined new visions for solar system exploration that will include a series of lunar robotic missions to prepare for and support a human return to the Moon for future human exploration of Mars and other destinations [12]. In this connection, a permanently manned lunar base (PMLB) is a not-too distant future.…”

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“…Plants as candidates for protosoil preparation. In a long story of resistant plants selection for a fertile soil forming, plant responses on a hostile lunar environment will be studied in biological experiments on payloads [12,30]. Later selected resistant plants will be involved in different programs at PMBL either to support human beings at habitation or to exploit them for in situ resource utilization (ISRU) purposes.…”

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The conception of growing first generation-plants in lunar greenhouses

Kozyrovska¹,

Zaets²,

Burlak³

et al. 2010

Kosm. nauka tehnol.

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The ability to grow plants in greenhouses is a practical necessity for providing an advanced life support system for humans while inhabiting a permanently manned lunar base. Plants will provide fresh food, oxygen, and clean water for explorers living in lunar bases. The conception of first-generation plants growing in a lunar base anticipates them to play a main role in forming a protosoil of acceptable fertility needed for purposively growing second generation-plants (wheat, rice, etc.) at a low cost. The residues of the first generation-plants could be composted and transformed by microorganisms into a soil-like substrate within a loop of regenerative life support system. To reduce a cost of early missions to the Moon, it would be practical to use a local material such as the lunar regolith for plant growing in lunar greenhouses. The use of microorganisms for plant inoculation to leach nutritional elements from regolith, to alleviate lunar stressful conditions, to decompose both silicate rocks and plant straw needed for a protosoil formation is a key idea in a precursory scenario of growing pioneer plants for a lunar base.

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