This is CBS On The World. I'm John Bachelor and it's a pleasure with David Livingston to

welcome Rutgers University, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Professor Heimben-Aroya,

the author of three books, Building Habitats on the Moon, Turning Destesia Gold and

Lunar Settlements that imagine the future of Lunar Settlements. We know that China and

Russia have announced their plans. Okay, fine. You have plans. But what's it going to look

like? What does it look like when people are living there? Professor, I turned to you.

What is the first piece of building this colony look like? The transportation of the equipment

and the people? What do you imagine? Can you describe it to us now?

Yes, John. The way I see it is that when we finally send people to the moon, we're going

to be sending prefabricated pressure vessel like structures that will place into orbit

and then we'll land at the selected site on the lunar surface. So those pressure vessels

will look a lot like the ISS pressure vessels. Basically, circular, cylindrical structures

they'll be able to withstand internal pressurization. So the gas astronauts aside can live without

using their spacesuits. And then those pressure vessels, once landed on the surface, would

have to be covered with a regolith. So while the regolith is deadly, it's also extremely valuable.

It's valuable as a shielding material. Eventually, it will be valuable as a resource for different

kinds of elements. And the size of these pressure vessels will be rather small. So maybe we'll

have three or four astronauts in a volume, the size of maybe an average living room. And

those astronauts will have to live together, we'll have to deal with each other, go with

psychological issues, as well as physiological issues. So that would probably be the first

settlement. And perhaps the next one will be just another pressure vessel that's attached

to that one. It may be five to six, seven years before we can actually go beyond those kinds

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