Lunar Boom Town/External links

Useful open/free design tools

 * Dia is free software for creating diagrams. It may be useful for process flow and instrumentation diagrams.
 * Art of Illusion is a free 3D Modeling and Rendering environment incredibly useful for design visualization.
 * Blender is also a 3D Modeling and Rendering environment augmented with exellent import/export data formats involving game development tools and environments.

U.S.G.S. Planetary Data System - Check licensing constraints before using. Summarize here for others. http://pdsmaps.wr.usgs.gov/maps.html

Background information

 * Lunar and Martian dust is a potential problem.
 * Possible solution for Lunar and Martian dust.
 * TANSTAFL Lunar vacuum will be compromised for chip making, requiring vacuum pumping.
 * http://www.kathryncramer.com/lunar_development/2004/11/maximizing_food.html
 * NASA Asteroid Surveys I feel safer already.  Might be a motherlode providing supplies to those asteroid miners!
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic:Energy_storage
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Networked_learning
 * http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Marketing_Strategy
 * Popular Mechanics Series on NASA's Planned Lunar Base

Applicable Google discussion groups

 * sci.space.policy
 * sci.space.history
 * sci.space.tech

Software

 * http://freerails.sourceforge.net/

Related news

 * April 2008 Minerals mapped on Lunar Surface