How can the colonisation be developed on moon and when?

Answer 1

Yes, we can currently do it, but it costs a great deal of money. However, the moon soil (called regolith) is an excellent radiation shield, so building structures from the regolith can help protect astronauts.

Another neat fact about the regolith is that it can be used to make solar panels by heating it up and doing a "few" things to it, which a current NASA mission plan suggests doing. This would be very low cost and if nobody wanted it anymore, they could drive over it and it would become regular regolith again. But large fields of these could certainly help provide the electricity needs of the colony, and can be created automatically by rovers (which is part of the NASA mission plan as well).

Water is the key thing needed to make setting up a moon base much cheaper. It can be used for drinking as well as oxygen. But it would be the most expensive thing to haul in if we had to bring it ourselves.

And if the ITER (Fusion reactor) gets built and works and more are created, the best reason for going to the moon is the abundant Helium 3. So mining this on the moon could make electricity on Earth cheaper for all of us.

Answer 2

There are many caves on the moon and it is speculated that the first colonists will be using these to make homes.

There will be need to be a lot of solar panals set up to create the energy needed to produce the air (so people can breath within these homes).

So much will be needed in the first stages of habitat... in fact everything will need to be shipped from Earth constantly for years before the moon can be self sufficient.

The links below have loads of info on possible ideas on how (and when) any Lunar Base will be made.

Answer 3

Technologically, I think humans could colonize the moon right now. I can't think of anything we'd need for a moon-colony that is beyond our current technology. However, it is beyond our economy. Building a colony would require huge investments of capital and time, to the tune of a few quadrillion dollars and decades of construction. Since the moon offers nothing of particular economic or social interest to humanity, there's no possible way of rewarding such a huge investment, so no one is going to be building a moon colony any time soon. I can't imagine anyone seriously attempting that feat until space based industry becomes exponentially cheaper than it is today, and until there is some practical reason for doing so (massive over-population of earth, cheap moon minerals, etc.).

Answer 4

When we have a cheap way of leaving the earth. Outside the Van Allen belts if we had no shielding a class X solar flare could kill a human in 10 minutes from ionizing radiation damage. So shielding is necessary. But it is heavy.
Until we can cheaply place the life support and shielding into space we are earth bound I am afraid.

Answer 5

when can we colonize the moon? likely not in our time because so far only one human expedition has visited the moon, there are also some setback to colonizaiton like gravity, and the atmosphere which is different from Earth.

Answer 6

Probably not any time soon. The atmosphere is so different from ours and the gravity is too. Not to mention the fact that there is no gravity and the temps up there are crazy!!

Answer 7

easy, dig a hole, cap it ,pressurize. tomorrow if nasa would stop overthinking it