A103. What kinds of houses, schools and work places will we build on the Moon? (A K2S Question)

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Most of the early homes and work places will be modules and inflatable structures brought from Earth and buried in Moon dust. Eventually, we'll start digging underground and developing larger and larger pressurized spaces. Initially, homes may be small caves dug into the rock, but over time they can be enlarged to create elaborate homesteads. Schools will be like they were on the frontier—all ages in a single room. The teaching instruments, however, will be much more advanced than chalk and slates. The workplaces will vary depending on their purpose. A large garage for fixing robots and vehicles, that is periodically opened to the lunar surface, will be a lot different from a greenhouse with fresh oxygen from the plants. The administrator's office will probably be a dull desk in a windowless underground room. No wood paneling either, though, as it would be too expensive and too low a priority to ship to the Moon in the near future.

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Answer provided by Thomas Matula, Ph.D. & Kenneth J. Murphy

Question and Answer extracted from the book Kids to Space - by Lonnie Schorer

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