What Living on the Moon Will Actually Look Like

2036. The south pole of the Moon. The Sun never rises here — it just circles the horizon. And on the rim of a giant crater stands humanity's first permanent home on another world.

NASA has a $20 billion plan to build it. But why there, of all places? Why will the first homes look like barrels buried in dirt instead of glass domes? What will people breathe and eat, how do you sleep when you weigh 13 kilos — and what could kill the crew in the very first month?

And there's a second team racing for the same few spots.

Credits: NASA, ESA (RegoLight concept, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO), NIST, NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University (LROC). 3D-printed house footage: Alfredo Milano / Italdron, WASP & Mario Cucinella Architects (TECLA), CC BY 2.5.
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