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Here Is What Life on the Moon Will Look Like

"We'll be Earth independent."
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President Donald Trump signed a directive this week that includes an initiative to send astronauts to the moon—and eventually to Mars. Humans have not been on the moon since 1972.

NASA focuses on individual missions rather than planning settlements on distant rocky spheres. But that doesn't mean visions of a moon colony are out of the question. To better understand what life on the moon would look like, Newsweek spoke with Robert P. Mueller, senior technologist at NASA with expertise in robotics, the construction of planetary outposts and many other nuts-and-bolt aspects of space exploration.  

What would housing on the moon look like?

So we divide structures into two categories. First we have 2-dimensional structures, and that’s

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