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Meredith Garofalo

FOUND: Darpa moon tech study selects 14 companies to develop a lunar economy - What They Never Told You

On the left, the words luna-10, 10-year lunar architecture, on the right, the full moon.

We've seen the movies and read the books about what it would be like to have a habitat on the moon, but in order to turn our Sci-Fi fantasy into a reality, scientists must lay out some groundwork.

That's what the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a U.S. organization that aims to develop advancements in National Security technology,  will be doing while working closely with 14 companies as part of its 10-Year Lunar Architecture (LunA-10) Capability Study. This study is meant to make significant progress in the development of future lunar habitats, the agency says.  

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