Additionally space agencies and other entities that currently do not have to have any manned spaceflight capability could also participate through robotics and telerobotics. Inclusion of nations currently not engaged in ISS, such as India or China would also boost resources available. As such it enjoys enjoy far more comfortable budgetary constraints. Moon Village became the first and still the only idea for the post-ISS era. USA would focus on its Journey to Mars, Russia and Japan would focus on a low-Earth orbit, while the other two big space-fairing nations currently not engaged in ISS – China and India – would continue their own projects. While cooperation in an individual missions would still keep on going as it is right now (for example Euro-Russian ExoMars mission), there would be no grand international scientific project in space that could become a successor to the ISS. Once funds for ISS are freed a new perspective for manned spaceflight will be opened.īefore Wörner stepped in with the Moon Village it seemed that with the end of ISS an international cooperation in space would disperse. While it’s true that currently vast sums of money in most of the major space agencies are allocated for the International Space Station, the Moon Village is meant to be the post-ISS project. While ESA does team up with international partners to send astronauts back to the moon (notably with NASA for EM-1 and EM-2 missions) – it’d be done within the frame of a Moon Village, however it wouldn’t be the Moon Village. It’s a concept, an understanding, not a single facility. It won’t be built of modules like the ISS, developed by various nations (and soon also commercial companies with Bigelow module about to be sent on ISS), and assembled into a single base.
It won’t be single programme like the Apollo. As Jan Wörner said it himself:Ī single place, but multiple uses and multiple users It will be a very open form of cooperation between various different space-fairing entities to support lunar activities, an understanding of nations to go to the Moon.
Houses in that village would be built using 3D printing technology, while population would be made of civilians and scientists, maintaining the base, mining (propellants, water, more) and doing science.
Americans would have a manned spaceships that would be used to travel there (but also Russians, Chinese, and in longer terms Indians would develop their own spacecrafts). Very common perception is that the Moon Village will be some sort of base, where Europe shall put astronauts and invite other nations to visit. I already got some mails asking for a position of the mayer of that village.
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