International Lunar Research Station

The International Lunar Research Station, or ILRS, is an international lunar outpost under construction in the Peary crater on the Moon's near side. Designs for the outpost's main hub, a reinforced geodesic dome, began in June 2010. Construction of the dome began on September 09, 2010, in Rutaka, East Asian Federation, by the Aerospace Exploration Agency. Construction of the additional modules for the station is proceeding in other nations for various nations' research.

Design
The station's proposed design is a central hub, composed of a large, transparent geodesic dome, and several underground radial corridors with locations at regular intervals for laboratory, habitation, and processing modules, further interconnected by a series of vertice corridors, to make the overall design of the station somewhat like a spiderweb. A spaceport will be connected to the main hub by a larger corridor to allow for large containers to be transported to the hub from docked spacecraft.

Energy
The ILRS is planned to be powered by a combination of Solar and Fusion power. The Peary crater features four Peaks of Eternal Sunlight, so solar power is a feasible power source. Fusion power would be utilized as a backup, in the case that solar power cannot meet the energy demands of research conducted at the station.