This document appears to be about a competition called the SHIFTboston 2010 MOON CAPITAL Competition that asked entrants to design a lunar colony called Moon Capital that could be built by 2069. The document includes summaries of the winning and finalist projects, as well as other notable entries. It also contains an afterward written in 1984 imagining life in a lunar university in the future, and a list of press about the Moon Capital competition.

2. iContents
i Contents
ii Foreword by Jeffrey Hoffman, Ph.D.
iii Lunar Habitation by Madhu Thangavelu
01 About SHIFTboston
02 Acknowledgments
MOON2010_Jury
07 MOON CAPITAL: 2069
08 SHIFTboston 2010 MOON CAPITAL Competition:
Winning Projects
Winner: LPS: 2069
12 Finalist: Liquid Soil
14 Finalist: Lunar Base at the Earth’s Moon
16 Finalist: Moon Capital
18 SHIFTboston 2010 MOON CAPITAL Competition:
Notably Unique, Rover, Fun, Energy, Habitat,
Selected Projects
44 SHIFTboston 2010 MOON CAPITAL Competition:
Competition Entries
86 Moon Ball
90 Afterword by Brent Sherwood
92 Press

3. “The moon is a vast waste land.
Will we inhabit it? Well, look at
Las Vegas.” Jeffrey Hoffman, Ph.D.

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J. Henderson, A. Carolina, C. Campos, L. Avila
R. Yeung, O. Karabinech, H. Chang, K. Chu

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L. Villegas, E. Duran, N. Aguilar, A. Reves
K. Chi, J. Peñuela, A. Espinosa, C. Tamez, K. Herrera
B. McGee
J. Henderson, A. Carolina, C. Campos, L. Avila

6. 79Competition Entries
D. Baciuska
S. Kumar, K. Gupta
K. Cespedes, T. Suderman, A. Richardson
J. Henderson, A. Carolina, C. Campos, L. Avila

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M. McNutt, F. Agren, A. Cole, E. Duray, J. Garvey,
J. Gates, J. Hui, B. Imhoff, P. Kim, I. Kong, R. Lim,
S. Newcomb, R. Ralston
K. Cespedes, T. Suderman, A. Richardson
L. Zayas
J. Henderson, A. Carolina, C. Campos, L. Avila

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Mr. Sherwood leads strategic planning and project formulation for NASA’s Jet
Propulsion Laboratory. His previous work includes leading engineering teams
on the production of modules for the International Space Station.
In 1984, Mr. Sherwood took first place in the Honeywell Futurist Awards
Essay Competition with three 500-word pieces projecting 25-year advances in
computers, aerospace, and the “social, economic, and environmental impact
of the technological progress.” Unchanged, this piece is the third essay from
that set and, albeit not realized in the intervening quarter century, nonetheless
captures the spirit motivating the SHIFTBoston visionaries documented in
this book. New worlds still beckon – and hopefully always will – as homes for
humanity’s outward expansion.
Mr. Sherwood holds advanced degrees in architecture and aerospace
engineering and writes and speaks in fields related to the human settlement of
space. Mr. Sherwood served as a juror on the 2010 Moon Capital Competition.
When I look out the window of the shuttle bus on my way home from work,
and see Earth as the planet of ocean and cloud it really is, I am struck by
what I’ve done. Retired widowers with acute phlebitis are supposed to go
fishing in Florida…
But with my extra time and my granddaughter’s computer I started catching
up in math. Just about the time I got to group theory and thermodynamics,
space began to dominate the news. Between the normal reports of famines
and counter-terrorist strikes came a steady stream relating discoveries and
breakthroughs, as though for all those generations we had been surviving
with only the introduction to the encyclopedia instead of the text!
Suddenly the exciting work in the exciting fi lds was being done in space.
Amazing products (including the vein-specific nti-inflammatory medicine
I use) and knowledge about the universe and ourselves rained down on us
from orbit. When many of the labs were consolidated into Lunar University,
I discovered at the instigation of my family that there was ample opportunity
on the staff or an aging man with over 40 years’ experience as a machinist,
who knew some real math, and who had a vascular disease to be studied in
weightlessness.
Languages and mechanical skills are our only “undergraduate” departments;
the real meat is graduate research. Most astronomy is done on Farside,
while practically everything else is in orbit. The Biocluster runs the research
hospital and the closed-ecosystem labs. Computer Science and Physics
are far enough away to make use of the cleanest possible vacuum. Cheap
superconductivity and free energy are enabling them to bring on line an
accelerator orders of magnitude stronger than any in history. Closer to home
are the Psycho-Social department and the Material Science cluster, where I
work.
You can’t help but see Earth differently from here, and they’re starting to look
to us more and more. The planet is hungry enough for the information and
technology we produce that our ability to grow and to learn is unbounded.
The University has even begun reinvesting directly in Earth, knowing its
Letter to an Old Acquaintancei
By Brent Sherwood
Afterword

9. 91Afterword
worth to all of us as a unique resource, by purchasing huge regions of critical
tropical habitat. Up here we don’t defend against someone else’s nationalism;
we defend against anyone else’s terrorism. When your daily life really
depends on everyone else, quite soon you come to trust people in a way you
never thought you could.
Life is better now than I remember it being before. Information moves so fast
that we don’t have to. Most of us alternate semesters in orbit or on the Earth
Trojans with semesters on the Moon, where 1/6 g keeps our muscles working
(but doesn’t aggravate my phlebitis). Here we all have time, we all have
room, and the work I do has never been more appreciated. I can remember
wondering if my grandchildren would go into space, but I never dreamed I
would be here to welcome them.
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Futurics 9:4, p.7, 1985, World Future Society, Minnesota Futurists, St. Paul.
Reprinted by permission.

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ART Das Kunstmagazin
“Weltraumarchitektur Boston”
Till Briegleb, November 30th, 2010
Canadian Centre for Architecture
“CCA Recommendation: the SHIFTboston MOON CAPITAL Competition”
July 14th, 2010
CNN
“Imagine a Moon Base in 2069”
Thom Patterson, November 18th, 2010
Commercial Space Gateway
“Moon Capital: A Commercial Gateway to the Moon”
Marc Cohen, August 28th, 2010
Inhabitat
“Massive Lunar Solar Power Tower Beams Energy to Earth”
Timon Singh, October 26th, 2010
Scientifi c American
“Architects Vie to Design the City of the Future--On the Moon.”
Cynthia Graber, November 4th, 2010
Press
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