The Homesteader’s guide to Lunar Settlement: Base Camp Infrastructure
https://rumblekraft.substack.com/p/the-homesteaders-guide-to-lunar-settlement-56f
The Homesteader’s guide to Lunar Settlement: Base Camp Infrastructure
https://rumblekraft.substack.com/p/the-homesteaders-guide-to-lunar-settlement-56f
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>The first thing to ever be built on the Moon is going to be a landing pad with blast shields and berms, for multiple reasons.
>The second infrastructure will definitely be roads
>The third infrastructure project is going to be a sunshade
>The fourth building is the key element on the base, the whole point for all the other infrastructure: the human habitat.
Literally the first source you link to contradicts these claims. The “top goal”, as stated [in the video](https://youtu.be/lyZlPCDqK_4) (22:36 onward) by Robert Mueller:
>The main thing we want to do when we get to the moon **is to have shelter**. Shelter from radiation, shelter from micrometeoroids, shelter from thermal swings and even the exhaust plume […] we just need protection from all this harsh environment. It’s a very very extreme environment and we need to protect the crew and we even need to protect the equipment, so that’s a **fundamental need**.
The “first thing” isn’t going to be roads or landing pads.
*How would you even build those in the first place?*
By hand? Do we have astronauts shoveling lunar regolith, mixing concrete in buckets?
All of these tasks – if they are ever to be accomplished – will require specialized machinery. Machinery which will will not be easily replacable and which needs to be protected from what is very much unlike any terrestial frontier.
The first thing that we are going to “build” on the lunar surface – *as stated by the NASA expert you are trying to use as a source* – is going to be shelter – for people as much as for equipment.