I want you introduce our moon base called project hexa. It is highly advanced and modern base including bathroom, living quarters, science room, maintenance room and greenhouse. Our base is not on the surface, but it is located under the surface inside lava tube which provides stabilized temperature -20°C and radiation protection. Our base looks like a flower made from hexagons (more about it in next document). It is designed to resist the freezing temperatures.

We plan to build our base inside the lava tube. If we would build our base on moon surface it would face 3 major problems – micro meteoroids, radiation and high temperature differences. Micro meteoroids would destroy the base, radiation would harm the astronauts and hight temperature differences would require a huge amount of energy to heat our base or cool it. So, lava tube is perfect solution – its huge tunnel underground that can handle micro meteors and radiation have no chance to pass from the surface. Also, the temperature is stable all time at fascinating -20°C. The base would be on the near side of the moon to allow for constant communication with Earth.

Our Moon camp would be built by experienced astronauts from previous missions and experiments. Our base is made of symmetrical hexagons. Why hexagons? – they are easy to assemble, modular and expandable (we plan to connect other rooms in the future). The main structure is made of carbon fibre – it is light and cheaper to get it from earth to moon. The entire structure is covered with a layer of aluminium to prevent heat escaping and radiation (if there will be some) from hurting astronauts and it is fireproof.  The base contains living quarters, laboratory, maintenance room, and greenhouse. We need a way to communicate with Earth, so we decided to add a radio antenna. Because our lava tube is not on the surface, we have to somehow get to the bottom of a big crater to enter it. Here comes handy a special aluminium elevator that can carry our astronauts.

Our moon base is built inside the lava tube which takes care of most of the protection.  The base itself protects astronauts from freezing and radiation (if there will be some). But mostly it provides oxygen, water and food, which is necessary for living.

Water will be obtained by mining or recycling. Recycled water is from pee and showering. Automated rover will mine regolith containing water.

We will get food from planting and then use dead bodies of plants to fertilize new ones. For fertilizing we will aslo use human excrements.

Our energy source is sun. We use solar panels to generate energy and store it inside lithium-ion batteries, which are placed inside our Base. Why? When battery is faced to enormous or extremely freezing temperature, it starts to lose a lot of energy . Inside our base, which is inside a lava tube, is stabilised temperature. This is the way to get maximum out of our batteries.

Oxygen will be obtained by electrolysis and from plants. Small portion will be obtained by rover.

Our base has multiple purposes. One of them is commercial. People can buy a ticket to 7 day trip to moon to try out how is it to live outside our earth. The crew is 3 tourists and 2 professional astronauts. Of course, the tickets are really expensive because of the fuel, preparations and etc. The main purpose is to explore moon and examine samples of moon land and minerals and to explore the radiation environment outside the Earth’s magnetic field and prepare for future missions to other planets. One of the remaining purposes is to train a professional crew for future missions to other planets and objects.

Our day will start by waking up exactly at 6:00. After a short breakfast one person will check our greenhouse and water the pants. Others will suit up and go by elevator to moon surface to explore new craters and find new samples. After exploring one of them will clean up solar array. Then comes lunch. Lunch is same as breakfast, but there is bigger amount of food. Now they have free time for playing games or reading. The crew can communicate with other people on earth using antenna. After that they must check new samples at science room and send data to earth. Then, some of them can go asleep and other will prepare for the next day.