Leonard David's INSIDE OUTER SPACE

Building key infrastructure on the surface of the moon would include landing pads, roads and foundations for habitats.
Image credit: Redwire Corporation

If you want to continue to land at the same site on the Moon, you may need to treat it to eliminate the effects of lander rocket plumes.

And if that’s the case, you could call for shots of “Rhino Snot” – yes, you’re reading that correctly – but read on…

Rocket ruckus

Vehicles will routinely blast in and rocket off the lunar surface, part of a supply chain that caters to human encampments, equips science facilities and plops down gear for extraterrestrial mining operations.

Early on, the Moon is projected to be a rocket ruckus of kicked-up dust and flying debris. 

A just-held gathering of experts grappled with what we know, what we don’t know about how to handle “airport-like” operations on the moon.

Moon village as imagined by Skidmore, Owings & Merill, an architectural, urban planning and engineering firm.
Image credit: Skidmore, Owings & Merill

Go to my new Space.com story – “How can we build landing and launch pads on the moon? – These are the first steps to opening up the solar system transportation routes to humanity and resource mining robots,” at:

https://www.space.com/the-moon-building-lunar-landing-launch-sites