recreational areas, etc., which are such as to encourage workers to bring families and to remain for extended tours of duty. It should be possible for individuals and groups to engage in entrepreneurial activities that provide services for others and opportunities for social interaction. Design of the base should incorporate a centralized commercial and service facility as well as commons areas where people can assemble for social interaction, recreational events and leisure activities. The architectural design holds the potential for influencing sociocultural development and particular attention must be given to avoiding creation of a prison-like facility that gives little attention to environmental needs beyond the minimum required for survival and work. Failure to accommodate the full range of human needs may lead to interpersonal conflict, hostility and development of culture traits that emphasize finishing one's duty tour as soon as possible and returning to Earth. As the lunar population expands it will be characterized by diversity of social characteristics such as race, age, education, occupational specialization, authority, social class levels, ethnicity, etc. Such diversity lends itself to in-group/out-group thinking, voluntary segregation, and social class distinctions that can lead to divisive prejudice and discrimination; it is important that the social design be such as to minimize such tendencies. The location of residential facilities should be such as to ensure equality of access to facilities for daily living, clustering of housing in isolated areas should be avoided, and communications paths should be such as to facilitate social interaction. Provision should be made to ensure that family and individual privacy needs are met and that sufficient living space is available to preclude overcrowding. Annoyance factors, such as waste disposal facilities, noisy business and industry, and hazardous operations, must be spatially isolated from dwelling areas and equality of freedom from annoyance factors must exist for all dwelling areas. 2. Sexual/Marital Factors A permanent lunar population will contain members of both sexes, an age distribution that encompasses the entire human life span, and the potential for a full range of sexual/marital patterns. It is possible that a serious imbalance in the sex ratio (males to females) will result in polygamous marriage patterns which the panel found to be undesirable. Homosexual relationships, also considered undesirable by the panel, are likely to occur, but the panel believed that they should be tolerated. In general, lunar culture should be expected to display a high degree of tolerance for all forms of sexual/marital arrangements so long as they do not interfere with ongoing activities and the rights of others. The panel considered it undesirable for sexual/marital matters to become the subject of overriding official concern and formal regulation. The carrying capacity of the lunar base, (the maximum number of people that can be housed, fed and otherwise supported) will be known with a relatively high degree of accuracy. It will be necessary to limit population growth in some manner in order to ensure that rapid or continuous growth does not exceed the carrying capacity and lead to an overpopulation crisis that could threaten the well-being of the community. Regulation of family size, enforced birth control, involuntary sterilization, and euthanasia were identified by the panel as ways in which population growth control might be approached; these measures were, however, regarded as undesirable and high priority was given to ensuring that they were not introduced into, or allowed to develop within, the lunar culture. Earth values pertaining to rights of privacy in relation to reproduction should be transferred to the lunar culture, but economic incentives, such as lower taxes, preferential job assignments and more desirable housing, should be employed as
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