On the Moon, it is better to build future settlements inside its craters and tunnels, and not on the planet's surface. Hero of Russia, cosmonaut Fedor Yurchikhin stated this to RIA Novosti.
According to him, one idea is to assemble habitable modules and cover them with lunar soil (regolith) for protection.
“When considering such projects, I always wonder, who will hold the shovel? There are no lunatics there. After all, we need to be protected from radiation, from micrometeorites,” the astronaut said.
He noted that the entire Moon is “speckled” because “it has no atmosphere, nothing burns there, everything is on the surface.”
Yurchikhin also said that the future on the Moon is possible thanks to the construction of tunnels on the slopes of craters, into which residential modules will be guided. This, he added, would allow the rock above to serve as a natural protection for humans.
In late September, acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy said at the International Astronautical Congress in Sydney that the space agency intends to create not just a station on the Moon in the next decade but also an entire village with people. According to him, all conditions for a long human life will be created there.
