Permanent ‘Moon Village’ is perhaps not now such a giant leap

It’s been almost 50 years since Nasa astronaut Neil Armstrong left the dusty imprints of his lunar boots on the surface of the moon.

Ever since, various notions of populating the moon — including an out-of-this-world Disneyland — were promoted but dismissed as the fantasies of the scientific lunatic fringe.

That may be about to change if Jan Woerner, the director general of the European Space Agency (ESA) has his way.