The man who is leading the effort to build a base on the moon joined NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman during a presentation to Iowa State University students Tuesday in Ames. Moon Base Project Manager Carlos García-Galan (Guh-lahn) says they settled on building the base at the south pole of the moon because of the availability of light.
He says the moon base will be permanent and they need more light to survive.
Garcia-Galan says the areas in the shadows have not seen the exploration of other areas of the moon and exploring them from the base could be important.
Garcia-Galan says building the base there will not be easy and they will have to figure out how to do it to protect those who are going to live there. He says figuring out how to accomplish the mission is much like how NASA had find a way use computers that were the size of a room in the Apollo program.
Garcia-Galan says they have already developed new moon rovers to help build the moon base and explore it. He says they will also be using drones and other devices they develop for the mission. He says they are not afraid to fail as they work on the first phase to get the base built.
