Dr. Jeffrey Hoffman is a professor at MIT’s Aeronautics and Astronautics Department and former astronaut. He received a BA in Astronomy (summa cum laude) from Amherst College (1966); a Ph.D. in Astrophysics from Harvard University (1971); and an MSc in Materials Science from Rice University (1988).

As a NASA astronaut (1978-1997) he made five space flights, becoming the first astronaut to log 1000 hours of flight time aboard the Space Shuttle. Dr. Hoffman was Payload Commander of STS-46, the first flight of the US-Italian Tethered Satellite System. He has performed four spacewalks, including the first unplanned, contingency spacewalk in NASA’s history (STS 51D; April 1985) and the initial repair/rescue mission for the Hubble Space Telescope (STS 61; December 1993). As the Astronaut Office representative for EVA, he helped develop and carry out tests of advanced high-pressure space suit designs and of new tools and procedures needed for the assembly of the International Space Station.

Following his astronaut career, Dr. Hoffman spent four years as NASA’s European Representative, working at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. In August 2001, Dr. Hoffman joined the MIT faculty, where he teaches courses on space operations and space systems design. His primary research interests are in improving the technology of space suits and designing innovative space systems for human and robotic space exploration. Dr. Hoffman is director of the Massachusetts Space Grant Consortium, responsible for space-related educational activities. He is Deputy Principal Investigator of an experiment on NASA’s Mars 2020 mission, which will for the first time produce oxygen from extraterrestrial material, a critical step in the future of human space exploration. In 2007, Dr. Hoffman was elected to the US Astronaut Hall of Fame.

Dr. Jim Logan is a board certified aerospace medicine physician with a twenty-two year career as a NASA Spaceflight Medical Officer. He is considered a world authority in space medicine, long-duration interplanetary human spaceflight and space settlement.

A member of Gene Kranz’ Orbit Flight Control Team at NASA’s Mission Control, he held numerous positions at Johnson Space Center such as Chief of Flight Medicine, Chief of Medical Operations and Chief of Medical Informatics & Health Care Systems. He served on NASA’s Dive Medicine Board and Space Medicine Board for years and was the only life science representative of NASA’s original Space Station Skunk Works. He was the first Provost of International Space University in Strasbourg, France and served on the Space Station Projects Office at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC.

A founding Board Member of the American Telemedicine Association, he has consulted for a variety of international and domestic healthcare organizations, the RAND Corporation and the Department of Defense. He was also project manager for NASA’s space station Health Maintenance Facility, the first telemedicine-enabled preventive, diagnostic and therapeutic medical clinic in space. Prior to medical school he completed graduate-level work in evolutionary biology and biochemical genetics.

Since leaving NASA in 2012 he completed a medical fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University Medical Center and is currently cofounder and CEO of the Space Enterprise Institute, a non-profit 501c3 educational foundation, and chair of the National Space Society Space Settlement Advocacy Committee.

A recipient of NASA’s Distinguished Speaker Award, he has been featured on PBS, The History Channel, National Geographic Channel, CanandaAM, and numerous radio talk shows. His speaking career has taken him to Australia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, Iceland, Russia, Argentina, Costa Rica, Guam, South Korea, New Zealand and the Peoples Republic of China.

Gregg Maryniak is the Co-Founder of the XPRIZE Foundation and its original Executive Director. He is the Foundation’s Corporate Secretary and member of the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees.

Maryniak is an Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He received Russia’s Tsiolkovsky Medal for his work on the energy and material resources of space and the Space Frontier Foundation’s Vision to Reality Award for starting the Lunar Prospector Team which discovered billions of tons of water ice and other frozen volatiles at the Moon’s North and South poles. He has testified on energy and space technology before the United States Congress and the President’s National Commission on Space.

He was Chief Executive Officer of the Space Studies Institute of Princeton, Senior Scientist of the Futron Corporation, Vice President of the St. Louis Science Center and Director of the James S. McDonnell Planetarium. An Associate Founder of the International Space University, he served as a member of the Board and a Managing Director of the University as well as a department chair teaching such subjects as orbital mechanics, robotics and space resource utilization.

He served on the Director’s Council of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography and is the Vice Chairman of the Lindbergh Foundation. He currently co-chairs the Space and Energy tracks at Singularity University at NASA Ames Research Park in Mountain View, California.

His book, Fearless Experiments with Microcomputers, which introduces adults and youth to the exponential technology of microprocessors, was published in 2017.

Dan Curry is a veteran of over 100 feature films and 40 television productions. His visual effects work on STAR TREK was honored with 7 Emmy Awards and 15 nominations. Other awards include a Visual Effects Society Award for best broadcast VFX, an Omni Award, and three International Monitor Awards. Dan also created the Klingon martial arts style and invented iconic bladed weapons. Dan served as a visual effects department head at 21st Century Fox, Warner Bros, and Paramount Pictures. He was Vice President, Director of Creative Services at Cinema Research Corporation, and Art Director at Modern Film Effects. Dan has represented the Overview Institute at events in Spain and Las Vegas, and was also commencement speaker at three universities and has lectured at the invitation of the Malaysian government, as well as New Zealand, Europe, Thailand, and all over the US. He also does presentations together with NASA scientists on the symbiotic relationship between science fiction and real science.

Dan holds an MFA in Film and Theatre. Prior to entering the film industry Dan taught Fine Arts, Film, and Theatre at the university level. He is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Community Development constructing small dams and bridges in rural Thailand. Subsequently he directed a Thai language TV series for the Ministry of Education while serving as production designer for The Bangkok Opera, and doing freelance art and architecture projects. Dan was the only non-Thai awarded a commission as production designer for the King’s Royal Charity Ball.

Dan is a past Governor of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, and is a member of the Directors Guild of America, American Society of Cinematographers, Producers Guild of America, Art Directors Guild, and is a past Board Member of the Visual Effects Society and was honored as a Visual Effects Society Fellow.

Dennis Wingo has decades worth of experience in the computer and aerospace industries. He is Founder & CEO of Skycorp Inc, and Greentrail Energy Inc., Co-Founder & CTO of Orbital Recovery Inc.. Key areas of expertise include solar electric propulsion, satellite and spacecraft design, advanced mission planning, and lunar surface operational scenario development. He holds patents on space logistics systems (one licensed to Orbital ATK).

Wingo worked for many leading edge companies in the computer, artificial intelligence, and document management space during the 1980’s (e.g., Vector Graphic, Symbolics, and Alpharel. He led the development, construction, and testing of microgravity payloads for sounding rockets and the Space Shuttle at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, including the first MacIntosh flown on the Space Shuttle and SEDSAT-1, the first non-NASA spacecraft built in Alabama. Next, he led the design and development of the world’s first commercial satellite servicing system at Orbital Recovery. He also led the Lunar Orbiter Image Recovery Project (LOIRP) that restored and digitized the images of NASA’s Lunar Orbiter Program. Wingo is first in history to rescue and operate a spacecraft (ISEE-3) in interplanetary space.

David G. Schrunk is an aerospace engineer and medical doctor with board certifications in the medical specialties of nuclear medicine and diagnostic radiology. Dr. Schrunk served two years in the United States Army as a flight surgeon / investigator at the US Army Aeromedical Research Unit and for one year as a flight surgeon / investigator with McDonnell Douglas Astronautics.

Following a four-year residency program at the University of Missouri, he became a partner in the Valley Radiology Medical Group in Escondido, California, where he practiced medicine for twenty years. Upon retirement, he became actively involved in the space community and has authored numerous papers and presentations on scientific and legal topics related to the exploration and development of the Moon.

He is the lead co-author of the book, “The Moon: Resources, Future Development, and Colonization,” published by Wiley-Praxis in 1999; a second edition was released in 2007. In 1995, Dr. Schrunk founded the Science of Laws Institute, whose purpose is to expand science to encompass laws of government and the lawmaking process. In 2005, he authored the book, “THE END OF CHAOS: Quality Laws and the Ascendancy of Democracy.”

Dr. Schrunk is a member of the board of directors of the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA), whose goal is to place telescopes and communication devices on the lunar surface. His affiliations also include the Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the Systems Engineering Society (INCOSE), the Kepler Space Institute (KSI), and the National Space Society (NSS).

Eric Rosenthal is President of Creative Technology, LLC (CTech), a company specializing in new and advanced imaging technology consulting and development. CTech is currently working on a project to prototype a full-spectrum imaging sensor and display. R&D on imaging technology leading to this current project has been sponsored by the Office of Naval Research (ONR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NSA, Naval Research Lab (NRL) and NASA. The full-spectrum imaging system is based on a novel Wave Theory of Human Vision. Several patent applications have been filed on the sensor, spectrometer and display designs. Three patents have been awarded on a full-spectrum camera and display.

Rosenthal was Vice President of Advanced Technology Research (ATR) at Walt Disney Imagineering Research and Development, Inc. ATR had a team of staff and consultants that focused on identifying and evaluating technologies and solutions from research labs all over the world in an effort to keep Walt Disney’s business units at the cutting edge of new technologies. In 1999, Mr. Rosenthal successfully completed the construction of Disney/ABC’s Times Square Studios at 1500 Broadway. His innovative design of the glass and camera systems is in daily use on ABC’s Good Morning America and other Disney/ABC Television programs. Prior to joining WDI in 1992, Mr. Rosenthal worked as a technical consultant and project manager for NIKE R & D, and SONY Systems Integration Division.

Rosenthal became known for his audio and video systems engineering accomplishments during his 26-year tenure with ABC Television in New York. As general manager of A/V systems engineering at the ABC TV network, he revamped and updated many of the ABC broadcast centers and studios across the United States. He supervised the design, engineering and installation of new facilities, providing them with state-of-the-art, computerized lighting, rigging, audio-video, routing switchers and distribution systems. Mr. Rosenthal received an Emmy award for his work as technical project manager for the audio-video systems engineering of ABC’s coverage of the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Mr. Rosenthal is an Adjunct Professor at New York University (NYU) Tisch School of the Arts Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) teaching master’s classes entitled “Digital Imaging:Reset” and “Basic Analog Circuits”. Mr. Rosenthal has been awarded 9 patents and has 3 patents pending.

Andrew Chaikin is a space historian and author with 40 years experience. He is best known as the author of A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts, which tells the stories of the Apollo missions through the eyes of the astronauts. The book was the main basis for Tom Hanks’ 12-part Emmy-winning miniseries for HBO, “From the Earth to the Moon.” A graduate in geology from Brown University, Chaikin has brought his knowledge of planetary science to his writing and teaching. As a visiting instructor at NASA he has taught the history of human and robotic space missions, as well as the human behavior aspects of success and failure in spaceflight projects. He lives in Vermont.
Website: www.andrewchaikin.com

Howard Bloom has been called the Einstein, Newton, Darwin, and Freud of the 21st century by Britain's Channel 4 TV. He is the author of eight books, including The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History. One of his books, Global Brain, was the subject of a symposium thrown by the office of the Secretary of Defense, with representatives from the State Department, DARPA, the Energy Department, IBM, and MIT. His work has been published in The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, Psychology Today, and the Scientific American. Bloom's base was in microbiology and theoretical physics. But in the 1970s and 1980s, he went on a field expedition into a territory he knew nothing about, the dark underbelly where new myths and movements are made, popular culture. He founded and ran the biggest PR firm in the music business, helping build or sustain the careers of Michael Jackson, Prince, Bob Marley, Bette Midler, Billy Joel, Paul Simon, David Byrne, Peter Gabriel, AC/DC, Queen, Kiss, Aerosmith, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, ZZ Top, Chaka Khan, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Run DMC. Bloom explains that "this was my fieldwork in mass behavior." Bloom went back to his science full-time in 1988. Since then he has written articles for peer-reviewed journals or given lectures at scholarly conferences in twelve different scientific fields, from quantum physics and cosmology to evolutionary biology, neuroscience, biopolitics, information science, and astronautics. He is the co-founder and co-chair of the Asian Space Technology Summit, founder of The Space Development Steering Committee, and on the board of governors of The National Space Society. The eleventh president of India, Dr. APJ Kalam, calls him "a visionary." And in 2021, an organization was established to further his work: The Howard Bloom Institute. Concludes Joseph Chilton Pierce, the author of Evolution's End and The Crack in the Cosmic Egg, "I have finished Howard Bloom's [first two] books, The Lucifer Principle and Global Brain, in that order, and am seriously awed, near overwhelmed by the magnitude of what he has done. I never expected to see, in any form, from any sector, such an accomplishment. I doubt there is a stronger intellect than Bloom's on the planet." www.howardbloom.net
Website: www.howardbloom.net

Van Nedervelde is a futurist and transhumanist writer, activist, and speaker. He advocates for space settlements to avoid human extinction.

Van Nedervelde was an early developer in virtual reality. He is the founder of virtual reality & 3D graphics studio E-spaces, patent-filing inventor of C-Thru, applying VR to security systems, and co-CEO of X3D Technologies, Inc., a virtual worlds production company co-founded and co-owned by Hollywood movie-director Michael Bay. Van Nedervelde directed E-spaces’ production of twelve online 3D training simulators for British Petroleum and the broader oil & gas industry to certify Well Lease Operators in the maintenance & troubleshooting of oil & gas wells surface equipment. He also developed virtual reality projects for the Munich Airport Center, Simsala Grimm, virtual Europe, and the transhumanist themed sculpture in Martine Rothblatt’s Teresem Island

Van Nedervelde was the Executive Director for Europe of the nanotechnology think-tank, the Foresight Institute from 1997 to 2014. Van Nedervelde also holds the position of Global Task Force member for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology. As Executive Director for Europe, Van Nedervelde interfaced with the media and represents the Institute at European Union events, including EU parliamentary hearings. He has spoken at various conferences including a working group on unconventional security threats, organized in Washington D.C. by the Strategic Assessments Group (SAG) of the US Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Intelligence. Van Nedervelde co-authored the Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology and was cited in Ray Kurzweil’s book The Singularity Is Near.

Van Nedervelde serves on the board of directors of the Lifeboat Foundation, an organization dedicated to reducing existential threats in the world. Van Nedervelde also serves as the International Spokesperson for the Foundation and represents the Foundation by fundraising, giving multimedia presentations, and addressing the media .

Manuel (Manny) Pimenta is an Electrical Engineer with a Computer Science Master’s degree. He has worked most of his professional life in the Electric Utility industry. He has also worked on airborne radar systems for a major defense contractor. He became involved in space advocacy in 2000. His primary interest is Space colonization and his focus is on establishing a permanent human presence on the Moon. He has been part of several space advocacy organizations: He has been Return To The Moon project manager at the Space Frontier Foundation (SFF), organized two Return To The Moon conferences for the SFF, and has served as Advocate Coordinator. He was a founding member of the Board of Directors for the International Lunar Observatory Association (ILOA). He was also a member of ProSpace and participated in 8 consecutive yearly “March Storm” congressional space lobbying drives in Washington DC. He served as Vice President of the New York City chapter of the National Space Society. In 2004 he founded Lunar Explorer and in 2006 released the world’s first fully immersive, interactive Virtual Reality simulation of the Moon, which was also called Lunar Explorer. He has given presentations at many space conferences, lectured at NYU, Princeton, and Rutgers University, participated in NASA workshops at NASA Ames and worked with the Smithsonian on researching and creating lists of Apollo objects left on the Moon. He founded Virtual Moon to create a new and massively updated version of the original Lunar Explorer VR simulation and take advantage of the new consumer level VR technology that we have today but that was not available when Lunar Explorer was originally created. His passion is to create the most accurate and realistic VR simulation of the Moon possible – an experience that is visually indistinguishable from actually being there – and make it available to every single person on Earth who wants to experience it.

Virtual Moon is on a mission to change people’s perspective of Space in a way that creates a clear understanding of what Space is and our place in it and creates a more personal, direct and visceral connection with Space and the Moon. We are committed to creating a simulation that is accurate and realistic to the last detail, limited only by the performance of existing VR technology and available data sets for the Moon, while simultaneously pushing the envelope to deliver on our promise. Both the technology and access to better data sets are expected to drastically improve in the near future. Virtual Moon will continuously update the simulation as the technology evolves and better / higher resolution data becomes available. We are committed to be the world’s best simulation of the entire Moon and to remain so indefinitely.

For some interesting context, in 2006 (more than 20 years ago!), our founder Manny Pimenta was also the creator of Lunar Explorer, the world’s first fully immersive, fully interactive, Virtual Reality simulation of the entire Moon and owns all intellectual rights to it. Virtual Moon has thus inherited the rights to Lunar Explorer and, by virtue of this inheritance, we could instantly claim to be the world’s best VR simulation of the Moon since there have been no others created in the interim.

First, to fulfill our mission, we believe it is most important that everyone has the opportunity to experience the Moon. If we were to charge people for it, it would immediately become a barrier to some who live in underprivileged and / or underserved economic areas of the world. It would most seriously impact our effort to reach young people who have limited financial resources. So we are raising the funding we need from various sources to cover the costs of developing Virtual Moon and of supporting its ongoing operations. One of the most important funding sources are individuals who believe in our mission and make personal donations to make this happen. If we can fully fund Virtual Moon from personal donations, that would be our preferred source. That’s because it will involve a great many individuals who believe in the cause and the mission of Virtual Moon and who want to actively participate and rightfully claim credit for their contribution in making Virtual Moon a reality. This would also have the most desirable and welcome effect of organically building a grassroots worldwide Virtual Moon community. This also addresses another Virtual Moon core value which is to offer our users and community members tangible opportunities to contribute and participate in the mission of building a Space Faring Civilization.

Finally, we believe that by offering a VR experience like no other and making it universally accessible, we will create large scale user interest and generate ongoing, sustained engagement, both of which can be easily monetized.

The short answer is no, you don’t have to own a VR headset to access Virtual Moon. All content will be accessible via any device from smart phone to tablet, to laptop, and VR/AR/XR headsets. However, Virtual Moon is designed to deliver the most realistic, immersive experience of being on the Moon short of actually going there. The immersion and hands-on interactivity that Virtual Moon will offer, the profound impact of feeling like you are on the Moon, can really only be experienced in immersive VR. We envision that most users will use multiple devices at different times to access different aspects of Virtual Moon. They will likely use VR to explore the Moon, to enjoy the many fantastic views at the most interesting locations on the Moon and interact with hands-on experiences. And they will likely use 2D screens to do transactions, stay in touch with friends in the VM community, get news and updates from Virtual Moon, etc.

Also consider that VR headsets are quite affordable already (with the Quest 3S unit selling at $300 in the US) and likely to become more affordable, even while offering performance improvements, as the technology evolves. So we feel confident that immersive VR accessibility will significantly expand rather quickly. If you do not yet own VR headset, please take a look at some of our videos and watch how people react to the Apollo 11 Landing Experience. Many of them will tell you that alone is worth the cost of buying a headset. (and NO, we do not make a commission on VR headsets… Would be nice if we did though )

In keeping with our primary mission, Virtual Moon is also supplying VR headsets to our volunteers around the world who are bringing the experience of being on the Moon to remote underserved and underprivileged areas of the world.

Since you are asking the question, we presume you are already familiar with what a Virtual Moon Ambassador is. For the benefit of those who will read these FAQs later and may not have the context, I will briefly describe the program: Basically, anyone can become a Virtual Moon Ambassador. We already have a large number of VM Ambassadors but need quite a few more. We expect we will reach our target number of total Ambassadors rather quickly and at that point we will most likely eliminate the program, make the requirements more challenging, or replace it with something different. To become a Virtual Moon Ambassador right now, you simply need to commit to sharing the new of Virtual Moon with your circle of friends and invite them to join the Virtual Moon community. If 5 or more of your friends decide to join, you become a Virtual Moon Ambassador. That’s really all there is. However, you can lose your VMA membership by doing anything that intentionally or predictably tarnishes the image of Virtual Moon or significantly detracts from its mission. Nothing to worry about as long as you operate in good faith, never take advantage of people, and respect the Virtual Moon community as a whole and its individual members.

As a Virtual Moon Ambassador, once you have met your requirement of referring 5 new members, you will receive 100,000 square meters of Virtual Moon property and the option to receive an unlimited number of additional 100,000 square meter parcels at a greatly discounted 1% of the normal cost. For each $10 donation, you will be credited with 100,000 square meters of Virtual Moon property ( which would have cost $1,000 other wise). This is our way of showing our appreciation for your efforts in promoting Virtual Moon and your active participation in the mission of Virtual Moon. Your donations, as we explain in the website content, will be supporting the development of Virtual Moon and also our world outreach programs.

There are other privileges and incentives enjoyed by our Virtual Moon Ambassadors that are explained in more detail here.

This arrangement will hold until the Virtual Moon Ambassador program is closed to new members and the discounted parcel gifts are discontinued.

Just sign in and join the Virtual Moon community and let us know you would like to volunteer for the outreach program.

As an outreach volunteer you would go to schools in your area and speak with students about Space, the Moon, the importance of becoming a Space Faring Civilization and you would then let them experience being on the Moon by doing the Apollo 11 Landing Experience. If you have your own VR headset already, that would be great of course. If you don’t own one, you might consider purchasing one or two yourself to bring to your talks. But the best thing to do would be for you to find a local donor or sponsor ( like a business, a philanthropic group or club, or an individual donor) who would pay for two or three headsets that Virtual Moon would purchase and have shipped to you. You should have at least 2 headsets and ideally 3 depending on the size of the group you are speaking to and the time available.’ Virtual Moon will support you with content, materials, promotion, official recognition and also videos that are very compelling to entice donors and show them how effective our program is in promoting Space and STEM.

We have been doing outreach for a while now and we use the opportunity, when interacting with students and young people, to find out what they want us to create for them as part of the Virtual Moon experience and also what excites them most about our plans. The idea of owning property on Virtual Moon is received universally with enthusiastic approval. They also let us know that one of the most exciting things they can think of doing with their properties is to build something on them.

So we see this as a significant and important way of creating that direct personal connection between Space and the Moon and each individual person. Experiencing the Moon in an immersive and realistic Virtual Reality simulation is a powerful way to create that type of connection. Having the ability to own an actual portion of terrain on Virtual Moon that exactly corresponds to a real location on the real Moon takes that sense of connection to a whole new level. It is very inspirational and it really ignites their imagination.

Naturally, we see this also as an opportunity to generate funds that will be used for developing Virtual Moon and supporting operations. Part of the funds raised this way will also be used to support our worldwide outreach programs to bring this amazing experience to other students and young people around the world who would otherwise not have that opportunity.

Allowing the Virtual Moon community to own property is important in yet another way: it is another way each individual can feel that they are personally contributing to the creation of Virtual Moon and are actively participating in promoting Spae

Well, first because we are making that an actual design requirement. In other words, if it’s not constructable, we will have to keep changing the design until it is. Secondly, we are making a number of assumptions that we believe are reasonable and rational and those assumptions give us capabilities that will be critical in the future but don’t exist yet.

And thirdly, we have already done some first pass planning and studies that show that building Selene on the Moon likely has more than a zero probability of being technically feasible.

It’s important to understand that with Selene, we are only considering the technical / engineering feasibility. We know there are many layers of complexities in non technical areas that lower the probability of actually building Selene to just about zero. But our purpose with the Selene concept is to create a bold and inspiring vision of the future could look like when we become a Space Faring Civilization and to be able to use immersive VR to transport millions of people to that future in a way that they can no just watch it or read about it but actually EXPERIENCE what it will be like. We start with a baseline design for Selene that is admittedly simple and general. We are enlisting expertise from our Virtual Moon team members and other volunteers with specialized knowledge and skills to begin developing and refining the design, identifying technology and capability gaps, and finding pathways to achieving primary project objectives. We will iterate the design step by step, while adhering strictly to the core design guidelines and continuously assessing our progress is taking us closer to the goals.

We expect we may run into situations where a particularly ambitious goal for the vision of Selene may not be achievable and therefore render Selene unbuildable. In those cases, we will have to either forego or modify that goal unless we come up with a viable / feasible solution. To illustrate with a simple, trivial example, let’s say that we find the scale of Selene is just too ambitious. We cannot build a structure to house 5,000 people, but we can build one with the maximum capacity for 3,000 people. We would just scale back the number of people to keep the design realizable. Conversely we could find the opposite, that it would be only slightly more ambitious but still feasible to build Selene to support 10,000 people. Then we would again change the design to accommodate the larger vision. That’s because we want Selene to be as bold and ambitious as we can imagine, constrained only by engineering feasibility.