2006-12-09 15:24:48 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Well for one thing the moon has lots of minerals and if there was a base up there with smelters and machine shops to make parts for future space vehicles we could use the base as a ship yard because of the very low gravity. Constructing bigger and better spacecraft, the low gravity of the moon would be a logical choice.
2006-12-09 21:17:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Getting a research base for low gravity research although a rotating space station would probably serve just as well would be one.
Scientific exploration of the Moon would be helped along quite a bit by a moon base and that might be the main one.
Mining of the moon would also require a base and would in the long term probably be the biggest benefit but that's going to take a bit of time and we'll also need something to build in space to justify large scale lunar mining.
2006-12-09 15:35:47 · answer #2 · answered by bestonnet_00 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's true that it would be just as easy to launch spacecraft from an orbiting platform but our space-station is in constant danger from the ever increasing amounts of space junk. Special ground based radars can track objects right down to the size of a pea and there's over 40,000 bits of stuff flying around up there! Even a small fleck of paint can do damage to satellite components as if it were a bullet. Another thing is the constantly deteriorating altitude of satellites. Every few months the I.S.S. has to do a burn to raise itself back up to a safe altitude. These are things we need not worry about on a moon base. It also makes sense as the shuttle program which is obsolete and being phased out will give way again to rockets which are by far more economical and just as capable of reaching the moon as they are of making orbit. Why not?
But also, when the Chinese recently succeeded in putting their first man in space they announced the intent of trying for the moon. I think our guys are paranoid (perhaps rightly so) that if they succeeded they might try to claim possession over it, maybe build something there themselves.
2006-12-09 15:56:02 · answer #3 · answered by cosmick 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is Benfit?
Putting a moon station WHERE?
2006-12-09 15:32:15 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Low Gravity base of operation for future space exploration.. However that could probably be done with a space station.
2006-12-09 15:28:21 · answer #5 · answered by corporatetrade 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't even want to get into political agendas, so I'm going to stay away from there.
Well, it will help with space exploration (Easier to go to the moon from Mars, than afrom Earth to Mars)
Plus, it would also be able to tell us what is farther away (Telescope on the moon)
Other than that? No idea.
2006-12-09 16:35:11 · answer #6 · answered by Allen M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Job security for N.A.S.A. employees. Maybe to say we really have been to the moon.
2006-12-09 15:52:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The start of colonization and industry
2006-12-09 15:27:32 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
So mankind will be able to say to future mankind "Look what we did!"
2006-12-09 15:32:43 · answer #9 · answered by Random Person 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It'd be a good place to send the N!GGERZ
2006-12-09 15:26:36 · answer #10 · answered by Meatball ;) 3 · 2⤊ 2⤋