Mars is too far?

Habitats Around the Moon

First, we need to find a way to use the gravity of the Moon to help add gravity to orbiting Habitats?

One thought was a mile-wide ring spinning around the Moon faster than the Moon is rotating to create better gravity. The Habitat would be on the side of the ring that’s facing the Moon. With two space elevators at the polls of the moon, mostly used to get water and other needed elements from the Moons surface. There will be Solar fields on the Moon’s surface along with the most stable nuclear Power Plants that will be constructed in walls of craters.

A mile-wide ring around the entire Moon may be unimaginable, so let’s start with the elevators. Once we find water and Hydrogen on the Moon, we will want to mine it and use the Moon as a refueling base. Why waste the fuel landing and taking off from the Moon’s surface? The space elevators will solve that issue, there’s not much gravity on the Moon, so these space elevators won’t need to be as tall as the space elevators imagined on Earth.

These two space elevators will become stations for the space rail line that circles the moon. The first stations running on the rail line around the moon will have Solor fields, but with less protection from space debris then the fields on the surface they won’t be needed. The Habitats that will run on the rail line around the moon will start small, but with the over-flow of humans on Earth countries and businesses will help fund the project of creating a new home for humanity.

By the next century, we’ll have a ring habitat around the Moon that will have over 1080 square miles of surface space on the ring for farming, and human habitats that will get water and energy from the Moon surface. The Moon will make this ring a self-sustaining world. With a mile-wide runway on the outside of the ring, there will be several landing ports for space shuttles.

This all sounds good, but why does the ring need to be around the Moon? My thought was that the mass of the Moon would help with the gravity pull and the use of resources from the moon surface. If the gravity on the circling ring could reach at least half earth gravity, the human body could be born and grow much like on earth. The biggest problem with humans in space is that we were made to grow and live on Earth.