"A moon base" meaning what in this context? I'm guessing it means a NASA research based designed to host no more than a dozen astronauts at a time. That number

"A moon base" meaning what in this context? I'm guessing it means a NASA research based designed to host no more than a dozen astronauts at a time. That number is basically meaningless when it comes to colonization. We simply don't have the technology to establish an independent colony on the moon. We might be able to do it on Mars, but it will cost trillions of dollars.