Europe is planning a moon village full of robot workers
Starting in the 2020s, ESA wants to send humans back to the moon and use robots to build an international village at the lunar south pole. That village will serve as a base to launch longer missions to places like Mars, and might even serve as a tourist destination for commercial spaceflight companies.
Once the infrastructure is in place, we could send astronauts. The whole village could be up and running sooner than you’d think.
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