Opinion Pieces

(the same text is available in Dutch below this English text) We often speak about the Moon as if it were an empty rock. A dead object, a grey plain, a future construction site. In the language of space programs, it is increasingly described as a platform, a base, a resource hub and a stepping stone to Mars. But this is exactly where the problem begins. As soon as a world is reduced to a platform, its fate is already half decided. What was once a celestial body suddenly becom