Russian MOONBASE Zvezda

The base's main habitation module would first be delivered to the Moon. Later automatic spacecraft, including the Lunokhod rover, would be delivered, followed by a human crew and more modules. For the safety of the crew, the habitation modules might have been covered with regolith. In order to allow for exploration or repositioning of the base, the habitation modules may have been installed on wheel chassis, and multiple docked to form a movable train. Energy for the base would have been provided by atomic batteries and a nuclear reactor.

The moonbase project was ordered by the Soviet space chief Korolyov to Vladimir Barmin's Spetcmash bureau. The project was named DLB Lunar Base in technical specifications and Zvezda[3] in government documents. Unofficially, the project was called Barmingrad (Barmin's city or Barmin City) by its designers after the project lead.

Several aspects of lunar colonization were studied:

the aims of the base;
a concept for construction;
stages of realization;
construction and scientific equipment;
possible military supplies.



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