Cislunar City: The Outpost of Humankind Expansion into Space

Humanity’s expansion into space has already begun. According to the approach of the futures studies, it is possible and probable that in the last quarter of this century the presence of Humankind in space is characterized by a permanent settlement dedicated to typically industrial activities, associated with those of research and tourism as well as the necessary management (operation and maintenance) of infrastructures. All based no longer under a strictly hierarchical and highly structured organization like that of current space missions and stations, but based on a social and democratic organization very similar to many examples we have on Earth: the Cislunar City, which includes 12 “districts” in close correlation with the Earth and distributed among the low Earth orbit (at various altitudes), the lunar orbit and the Moon surface, and the Lagrangian points as well. It will be inhabited by one thousand people (a third of whom for tourism reasons), with primary activity oriented to the extraction/collection of resources and their transformation, useful for life in the cislunar city but also for “export” towards the Earth. Habitats, logical relationship among the districts, services are here elaborated, as well as necessary basic legal framework and impact on natural environmental.