The Moon has fuel!

William K. Hartmann's painting shows some of the things astronauts could do on day trips from a lunar base. What king of goals would they have? According to Miller, Hartmann and Lee, they should have the following goals, followed by the 'greater good' they serve in parentheses:

-use lunar resources to make the colony self-sustaining (to ensure humanity's long-term survival)

-demonstrate human ability to work in an airless, low-gravity environment (helping us leap-frog to NEOs and Mars)

-settle the issue of water (it would mean life-support for Moon and space cities)

-establish routine production of oxygen (to support interplanetary spaceflight)

-utilize titanium, aluminum, etc. and harness lunar basalt and glass (to establish commerce and economic support of the lunar colony

-probe lunar origins, determine the structure and nature of lunar geology (helps to understand all worlds)

-protect lunar historical sites like Apollo XI landing site, Lunik crash site (set early precedent in protecting valuable places - followed up by Miller in his Black Cat Studios site: National Parks of the Future!)