Lunar colonies instead of Martian?

I continue on the impromptu theme for this week: “Our Solar System”. Robert Walker writes a lot on the tech blog Science 2.0 on how to (and not to) colonize other celestial bodies in the solar system. He is good at weighing pro’s and con’s and supports his suggestions with competent arguments. Here, for instance, is his close look at the possibilities for Lunar colonies — link >>>

In the next blog post: Venus’s cloud cities revisited.

The Apollo 15 lunar buggy in action