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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