Japan has begun working on technology for life on the moon

Kyoto University and the Japanese corporation Kajima by the 2030s intend to build a ground prototype of the station Neo Lunar Glass, which will be able to generate terrestrial gravity and allow people to live on the Moon. About it on December 22 writes the publication Japan Today.

"This project requires a significant technological leap on the part of Japanese science, but we aim to achieve it and pave the way for space colonies," said Yosuke Yamashiki, a professor of advanced integrated human survival research at Kyoto University.

The research team envisions that the Neo Lunar Glass structure will be about 200 meters in diameter and 400 meters high to accommodate up to 10,000 people.

The first 1:2000 scale model has already been presented at Kyoto University. The development team said that simulations have already been carried out to demonstrate the behavior of objects in artificial gravity.

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Earlier, on November 14, the participants of the SIRIUS-23 year-long isolation experiment, simulating a flight to the Moon, exclusively shared with Izvestia their impressions of the project, telling about the most difficult experiments and the trials they had to go through during the research work. As the crew commander Yuri Chebotarev noted, the results of the experiment will help to work out ways of overcoming complex and conflict situations that in reality will arise during the exploration of deep space. Including the settlement of planets, which will initially be carried out in small groups.

The SIRIUS-23 experiment took place at the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In the project, six volunteers spent a year in isolation from the outside world. They were inside a module that simulated a spaceship sent on a mission to the Moon.