How humans will colonise the moon – and when it will happen
While the world was distracted by Putin and Trump, India pulled off a lunar landing. But with six nations and two billionaires eyeing up the opportunities, what will our first off-world settlement look like?
It was in 1962, 61 years ago, that President John F. Kennedy pledged to put a man on the moon before that decade was through. Now NASA has stated that humans will be living and working there within the next 10 years – an ambition that shuffled just a little closer to reality this week, after India became the first country to successfully land a craft near the moon’s south pole.
A live telecast of India’s Chandrayaan-3 landing on the moon. AP
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