Source: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A6575463229261180929
A Real #MoonShot: Open Sourcing #Moon #Travel, #Exploration and #Settlement:
Open Lunar Foundation, is made up of tech executives and engineers—many of them with former ties to NASA—who have serious ambitions to create a lunar settlement.The driving ethos behind the foundation is to start a development that would not be beholden to a particular country or billionaire. Instead, as the group’s name suggests, Open Lunar wants to create technology for exploring and living on the moon as a type of collaborative effort. The foundation’s strategy will be to borrow from the playbook of open-source technology as it tries to accelerate the exploration and settlement of the moon. Open Lunar’s members have been discussing ways to have people from many countries come together to work on projects. And they have plans to share data and hardware designs from their missions, mirroring the development of open-source software like Linux or Android. On the most idealistic level, Open Lunar wants to try and set precedents that would encourage a more harmonious settlement of the moon rather than turning it into a destructive free-for-all among nation states.
