Dr David Wh
IN 2061 Halley’s Co to our inner solar last here in 1986 around the Sun unimpressive objec sky. But in 2061 it glorious show and human at it from beneath the blu the airless Moon and fr sky of Mars. By then, w become an interplanetar and the inhabitants of the disparate worlds will hav own stories.
In my new book S 2069, I chart the course possible future of sp exploration looking forw to and back from 2069 – 100th anniversary of the fi Moon landing. After m than 50 years of wai I predict we will have fi made it back to the in 2024.
We won’t go back to t of Tranquility where the Apollo 11 first set down, dramatic region, to a p shadows where the Sun b sets – the lunar poles.
Specifically, the first w next man will land at th pole on the rim of a crate called Shackleton. It’s 1 and its interior never sees Sun, it’s probably been well over a billion years we want to go there.
Over that time it has co impacting comets which very useful for lunar sett used as drinking water crops and, split into hydrogen, it can also prov
ADDED to the nearby lunar access to almos ous solar power, it’s place to set up camp. O next decade, crews w Shackleton to explore its and construct a base that early 2030s will be perm But it will not just be the States leading an intern coalition that will be ex the Moon. China will be as well with its own b possibly at the north pole
Decades after the USSR and then Russia ceased to be serious rivals to the US, China will emerge in their place. Both superpowers are realising the strategic importance of