Space Race: Moon

Why be concerned about coming back?

I read that the thinking behind colonizing Mars is to go there permanently.

Not like in a suicide mission or anything, but selecting people who would be willing to go there, knowing that it is a one-way ticket.

It makes the whole question of continuous provisions, logistics etc far easier, if we do not have to concern ourselves with any return flight.

Launching supplies to the colony would be rather pedestrian suddenly.
 
If the USSR built a permanent Moon base the US would have also (any orbital stations would be more practically/cheaply built). And should the USSR collapse as per OTL, expect both bases to be abandoned. Possibly by now someone like Bigelow might be trying to buy one for reoccupation. (Imagine if every former space station were still in orbit).

If there had been a true colony, it'd really suck for any second-generation Lunies.
 
If the USSR built a permanent Moon base the US would have also (any orbital stations would be more practically/cheaply built). And should the USSR collapse as per OTL, expect both bases to be abandoned. Possibly by now someone like Bigelow might be trying to buy one for reoccupation. (Imagine if every former space station were still in orbit).

If there had been a true colony, it'd really suck for any second-generation Lunies.

or the Crew get the order to stay on Moon during collaps of USSR
something simelar happen on Board of MIR space station 1991-1992
flight engineer Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev got order to stay until new crew get to MIR
he became "the last Citizen of the USSR " with 311 day in space.

I wonder if DLB Outpost declare its "independence" during this period
and offer the Base for International Astronauts in exchange for resupply ?
Like China, USA, Europe, India or other nation.
 
or the Crew get the order to stay on Moon during collaps of USSR
something simelar happen on Board of MIR space station 1991-1992
flight engineer Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev got order to stay until new crew get to MIR
he became "the last Citizen of the USSR " with 311 day in space.

I wonder if DLB Outpost declare its "independence" during this period
and offer the Base for International Astronauts in exchange for resupply ?
Like China, USA, Europe, India or other nation.

How many SF stories have I read with THAT plot? Very dramatic, and physically possible if the US has its own Moon base. Seems unlikely though.

Anyway, I could have been wrong. Russia didn't give up Mir, after all (it was years before the US began subsidizing the Russian space program).
 
How many SF stories have I read with THAT plot? Very dramatic, and physically possible if the US has its own Moon base. Seems unlikely though.

Anyway, I could have been wrong. Russia didn't give up Mir, after all (it was years before the US began subsidizing the Russian space program).

dam, i forgot those Sci-fi plots. is this not a Ben Bova specialty ?

Like Mir, in TL russia will not give up DLB either, if Soviet union collaps and resume as Russia.
but i ask my self has the Soviet union to collaps in this TL ?
 
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