An artist's depiction of a lunar base, sometimes called a moon village. A moon village would provide a great initial market for lunar miners.

How we shall go to the moon in a coordinated manner? We need to somehow federate already existing program and business plans. The answer could be the Moon Village, a common conception of the moon as a destination for multiple users and missions.

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Jeff Foust has more than a decade of experience writing about space policy, entrepreneurial ventures and regulatory affairs. In 2001, he established spacetoday.net to aggregate and summarize the day's space-related news stories. In 2003, he started The...