“Your mission, brave cosmonaut, will be to keep the People’s Glorious Mass Driver operable and ready at all times to exert the will of the Motherland. Rest assured, all your physical needs have been provided for indefinitely. Ha, ha! No, there is no need to worry about your return trip. You will never be leaving the People’s Glorious Mass Driver Complex. Once you have been deployed, the People’s Glorious Orbital Shards of Blossoming Death will render space travel impossible for many, many centuries, to prevent any other nation establishing claim on the People’s Glorious Lunar Co-Prosperity Sphere. Take care to follow your prescribed life-extending excercise regimen!”
Actually, I’m thinking of something that could eventually grow into a colony.
“Your mission, brave cosmonauts…”
I just hope they clear out those darn Nazis.
The likelihood of such a thing working, as a self-sustaining colony, is probably a million to one. It’s a suicide mission.
“Biosphere” experiments haven’t been hugely successful here on Earth, and you don’t have to wait for a 250,000 mile taxi ride to bail out of that.
With existing technology there is no way we can have a sustained presence on the moon beyond the most basic of research facilities with a small cew, and even that would be wildly expensive.