You have already liked this page, you can only like it once!
By the middle of this century the Moon is likely to be a manned base, not only for science but for mining and engineering too - and a way-station for more distant spaceflight.
CREDIT
Image courtesy Pat Rawlings/SAIC/NASA JSC --Mark Dowman andMike Stovall/Eagle Engineering,Inc ./ NASA JSC --Clementine/BMDO/NSSDC --LunaCorp/Robotics Institute