Click here for story. The Space Frontier Foundation is leading the way for a return to the Moon through the efforts of free enterprise. Unlike NASA's Apollo program, the Foundation is proposing that we return humanity to Earth's Moon to live and work, using the raw materials available to create a viable and permanent presence. On the Moon, there is free solar energy for the collecting. Within the lunar regolith is a wealth of raw material, including oxygen, silicon, aluminum, iron, titanium, and magnesium.
Water ice is suspected to be in abundance at the poles.
The Moon could be used as a large optical bench in vacuum, making it an ideal site for a long base-line array of interferometric telescopes. In short, the Moon is a gold mine for commercial and scientific ventures. This site examines the efforts of the world's top Lunar experts, including the work of those astronauts who have traveled there, as well as the work of the scientist and engineers who sent them. We also draw upon the expertise of today's top Lunar specialists and entrepreneur s, and the scientific and prospace organizations worldwide who are working for a Return to the Moon.