Go to the Moon and not come back? This is the same proposal made of Mars. Can SPACE1 accomplish this using super technology? Or will it take conventional technology? Let's examine the possibilities.
At this time, if we want the moon man to survive, he will need food, breathable air, water, energy, sheltered housing and recycling facilities. He should also have a 3D printer to make things as needed.
Shipments
As the Moon is close by, it could be resupplied with necessary survival materials.
Food
Conventionally speaking, leaving a man on the Moon will require leaving other things as well. At first, a massive supply of years of food packets with a microwave oven is necessary as work progresses on a massive greenhouse to grow hydroponic food and garden food grown in lunar regolith, tended by autonomous robots.
Robots
A single man will need helper robots for growing food, working in the harsh vacuum and conditions. Robots can maintain the equipment and do the mining operations.
Water
Setting up shop at the South Pole will allow collecting and purifying a supply of frozen water from the bottom of polar craters using mining machines.
Mining
Mining will collect ice for water purification, soil for oxygen extraction, regolith for building materials and growing food.
Air to Breath
Air will come from the hydrolysis of water and recycling, filtering out co2, and replenishing with oxygen.
Habitation
A habitat shelter can include a crater or lava tube to protect from radiation.
Power
Power can come from solar panels at the top of the crater, eternally bathed in sunlight. Water processing could also collect hydrogen but it must be processed and made safe. Taking a small nuclear power generator would also be helpful.
Heat
Heat is piped in from collector fans to radiators from near the surface bathed in very intense sunlight. Lunar rock can store passive solar heat from direct sunlight and release the heat in areas not sunlit.
Super Technology
Doing a long term mission on the Moon with super technology will happen completely different and may be a more detailed future topic. Super technology has different needs and can supply nodes of all the requirements of survival in one place in space-time and propagate/transport astronauts through augmented reality.
