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Deployable Lunar Habitation Design

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Plans to return to the Moon and develop a sustainable human presence there continue to arise and change. In addition to the efforts of space agencies and governments, commercial spaceflight initiatives are taking part in future lunar exploration scenarios (cf. Lunar X-Prize).

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Haeuplik-Meusburger, S., Ozdemir, K. (2012). Deployable Lunar Habitation Design. In: Badescu, V. (eds) Moon. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27969-0_20

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