Artemis Project

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The Artemis Project is a private venture to establish a permanent, self-supporting community on the Moon. It is named after Artemis, the goddess of the Moon and twin sister of Apollo (a reference to the Apollo project). The project's advocates are not counting on mining or research activities as their initial revenue stream. Instead, they plan cover the costs by exploiting the entertainment value in creating a lunar colony. They also believe that their costs will be a small fraction of what a government bureaucracy, such as NASA, would have to spend.

The project has studied other space colonization projects as well, including colonies on outer planet moons, such as Europa, thought to contain water oceans under their icy crusts.