We, Crater Creators have designed this moonbase for astronomers to discover more about the stars from the radio telescope signals. This special moonbase is designed to accommodate eight people, who most of them are astronomers. Each person has a cabin with a bed and a private bathroom, as we respect privacy. The moonbase consists of eight dormitories, a radio telescope station (located on the north, from the main part of the base), a waste management building, a storage, a dining room, a living room, a kitchen, a water supply storage, a parking for our rovers, trucks and 3D printers, two gardens, a water cleaning station, a lab, a gym and a radio telescope research station.

Close to the Lunar Poles

We chose this location because we need two very important resources that cannot really be found anywhere else on the Moon: sunlight that will provide us electricity and ice that will provide us water. By contrast, the radio telescope will be a bit more to the north, on the far side of the Moon.

The regolith will be the most important material used because it can be found practically anywhere on the Moon and in big amounts. We will be also in need of other materials, such as glass for the plants (greenhouses walls) to get energy during the 13 days of sunlight. There might be other materials used to make the structure.

At first water will be imported from the Earth. Later a rover will be searching for ice and when it finds it, the rover will call the L.I.M mining rovers standing for lunar ice miners will go to the place marked and mine the ice. When they are full they will head back to the base where the carbon dioxide will be exerted out of the water when the ice is melted. Then the water will be used for the plants, kitchen and toilets. There will also be a water cleaning station to clean water.

Food will come from two places, the first place is the Earth. So it will come delivered from the Earth through capsules and then the astronauts will be provided with food. The second place where more food will come from is the garden where lots of varieties of plants will be grown for food including plums, pepper, tomatoes, cauliflower, algae, cabbage, etc. Fish and lobsters will live in water tanks so there will be meat.

Electricity will not be a problem, power will be provided from the solar panel field during the 13 days of light (the base will be able to collect the energy for the 13 days of blackout in batteries).

The oxygen will be first exported from the Earth, but shortly after it will be stopped as the base will be provided with oxygen from the garden. There will be lots of varieties especially chosen to be grown for oxygen and the main one is algae which will be grown in special aquariums

I woke up again and as I opened my eyes I saw the ceiling of my cabin and I yawned as it was my twenty seventh day on the moon. I went to use the morning toilet, shower and brush my teeth. As I came out of the room feeling fresh and I strolled across the corridor heading to the dining room where I expected to see breakfast on the table. I was not wrong as my eyes rolled across the table and saw toast, fruit, sweet buns, marmalade, hams and cheese. When I gobbled up my breakfast I talked with my friends until it was time for me and one of my colleagues to go to the radio telescope as it was our turn to work. I hurried to the garage with my colleague and switched on the garage. We sped through the dusty road by the craters. We crept through the airlock system into the radio telescope research station and set off to work. Today we made a cool discovery as we discovered that one star was turning red. We came back for dinner and we stayed up late in the living room chatting. I came back to the cabin and I showered, brushed my teeth and hit the bed.