GETTING IT TOGETHER: THE ILRP !

Don't despair over the initials in the title.  They were put there intentionally;hopefully to pique your interest. ILRP stands for the International Lunar Research Park, a concept being developed and promoted by the Moon Society.  The following is a direct excerpt from the Society's website about the ILRP:

• "The Moon Society has been developing the concept of an International Lunar Research Park. A site would be prepared by a contractor or consortium of contractors who would build facilities needed by all the national agency participants: space port, power production, power storage, warehousing systems, repair facilities, a fleet of different types of vehicles and rovers for lease. By sharing these things, individual national lunar outposts can just plug in, and spend all their man hours doing the research they came to do. Academia and enterprise and even tourist facilities would be welcome. This is just the sort of outpost that could morph by expansion over time into the first true frontier town. This is a somewhat different formula for International cooperation than that which underlies the International Space Station where NASA is host and boss. In an ILRP, the principal contractor would be the host, national space agencies would be tenants or lessees."

This concept is such an organized idea of the international cooperation which we think is absolutely essential for all future space explorations (solar system and beyond).  We encourage you to explore this concept more fully by visiting, and hopefully joining, the Moon Society.

Even if you are not ready to join up, we urge you to consider increasing your special knowledge about Luna by acquiring the Moon Society's Lunar Study and Observation Certificate