Well yes get what we can.....but I just told you. Water will be priceless and there is water on the moon. Course then Air. He who controls the Spice ya knows! :2razz:
This was from 2006.
Nasa to build permanent moon base
Nasa has announced plans to build a permanent base on the moon by 2024 - raising the prospect of a manned space flight to Mars.
The ambitious proposals signal the next phase of space exploration after the agency's space shuttles are retired in 2010 and marks a radical departure from previous short trips to the moon.
The international base will be permanently staffed by 2024, four years after astronauts land on the moon to begin assembly.
Once complete, astronauts from the US and other nations will spend up to six months on the base at any one time.
Nasa said the two key reasons for establishing a base were to prepare for a manned mission to Mars - and ultimately the expansion of human civilisation to other planets. The project is likely to cost hundreds of billions of dollars and involve Nasa partners in Europe, Russia and Japan, although China's participation is unlikely.
"This is not a flag-and-footprints. This is the idea of starting an outward movement that includes long stays on the moon," said John Logsdon, the director of the Space Policy Institute at George Washington University.
The first step in establishing the base will be a new generation of lunar spaceships, which will undergo tests from 2009.
Manned flights will begin in 2014 and astronauts will land on the moon - for the first time since the Apollo mission of 1972 - in 2020.....snip~
Nasa to build permanent moon base | Science | theguardian.com