This would be the first step towards a small manned base on the moon, which would require several additional Saturn launches every month to supply it.

Within that policy, developed by an interagency working group, would be new programs that could lead to developing a manned lunar base and missions to Mars.

Takes place partly on a manned base on Titan in the year 5000, by which time the human race has spread across the galaxy.

The island is a nature reserve with a manned base halfway along the western side.

Other possible goals are enhanced study of Earth, the solar system, and the creation of a manned base on the Moon.

In 2017 China is due to land a lunar rover and there are longer term plans for a manned lunar base.

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will construct a manned lunar base.

On the Moon the reactor would be used to power a manned base through the lunar night, when sunshine was absent for powering solar cells.

This technique was intended to deliver equipment and supplies to a permanent manned lunar base.

You see, I don't suppose a world with that concentration of violently poisonous elements in its ground would attract people to a manned base.