Humans will colonise the moon: Hadfield


Lazarus Sauti

According to one of the International Space Station’s most respected astronauts, Commander Chris Hadfield, no human has set foot on the moon for nearly four decades, but earth will have a colony there within the next 30 to 40 years.

Hadfield, who captured the public’s imagination by tweeting pictures from space and recording David Bowie’s Space Oddity at zero gravity, has predicted that a lunar base will be fully functional within his lifetime.

And within the next 70 years, he believes we could establish a base on Mars.

The 54 year old astronaut also believes both goals are the next logical steps in human exploration.

He said: “It is a pattern we have been following for the last 70000 years. We gradually made our way around the world. In the last 100 years we got to Antarctica and now there are people who live there for months at a time.”

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