Why NASA Will Never Build a City on the Moon
The reality of lunar settlement is far from science fiction's gleaming domes. NASA's $20 billion Moon Base plan, aiming for 2032, envisions not a city, but habitats scattered over hundreds of square miles . The environment itself is the enemy: deadly radiation requires meters of soil shielding, while the Moon's razor-sharp dust clogs equipment and threatens health . A true city simply can't exist on a world designed to destroy anything that tries to stay
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