Transport & space · around 2035

Permanent lunar base

Projection

A crew lives year-round at the Moon's south pole, using ice for water and fuel.

A standing base would be a laboratory, a test bed for off-Earth industry and a stepping stone to Mars. Polar ice could be split into oxygen and hydrogen propellant.

Why it’s plausible: Artemis and other national programmes plan crewed landings this decade; permanence depends on sustained budgets, heavy-lift reusability and in-situ resource use actually working.

See it in the living treeWikipedia