Permanent infrastructure will be on the moon "within the next few decades" says NASA's Nujoud Merancy

As NASA prepares to send astronauts back to the moon in 2027, the US space agency is already thinking about how lunar resources could be exploited for commercial purposes, architecture strategist Nujoud Merancy reveals in this interview.
Merancy is deputy associate administrator for strategy and architecture at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Working in the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate, she describes her work as focusing on "the big picture view o