The Modular Unmanned Orbital Laboratory, or MUOL, represents the beginning of TMP settlement activity in space and is predicated on the need to make space development more economically viable through the cultivation of high value industrial processes and products that are exclusive to the space environment. Space industrial research has been a crucial yet long overlooked aspect of space development, owing in part to the fixation of space agencies on ‘man-in-space’ activities that have little long-term economic development value. Put simply, the First Space Age floundered not just because of a lack of will on the part of the society to pursue space, but because it simply couldn’t turn a profit beyond the relatively small industry of satellite telecommunications. Owing to the very unusual na