...scopes up to year 2013, and finally space habitats that serve as starships for crews who's descendents in a few centuries will arrive at a nearby star. A
...Apparatus|SCIBA]] suit. Work with molten titanium and repair of equipment for vacuum use that would be damaged by exposure to oxygen or moisture is best
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...from Earth and to deliver lunar materials to orbit for building the homes for emigrants, space habitats.
...the needed effect. Fine yaw control is provided by reaction wheels sized for adjusting the yaw of the spacecraft carrier. Course yaw control is provide
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Show Stoppers are problems for which we currently have no solutions, yet we cannot accomplish some major p
...ed herrings. Spotting and solving Show Stoppers is one of the great skills for a technical person that approaches being a Zen master.
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...environment it tarnishes. Silver is used in specialized equipment, such as satellites, and as a thin plating to mitigate skin effect losses at high frequencies.
...bsolutely required for some application, it might need to be imported, but for electrical conduction, aluminum and sodium can substitute. On the other ha
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This entry is an excerpt from a much longer paper I am writing on future work for NASA. I started work on it because interest in our return to the Moon has
...he Moon, but no short-term ones. Meanwhile, some of the alternatives like Earth science from space show powerful short-term advantages. We are certainly a
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...er]] and [[ethylene glycol]] through this radiator cooling can be provided for sensitive equipment without throwing out any mass of evaporated liquid. Sh
...an be available a [[radio isotope thermal generator]] can provide heat and power during the night.
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...o) are registered to Moon Society, and Lunarpedia.org will soon join them. For getting sponsors, Moon Society itself would be far better and perhaps more
== Solar power and lava tube additions are out of place ==
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*Suborbital tours for Lunans
:Prerequisite for a global map of potential highway and railway corridors
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...unless your goal is leaving a few footprints on Mars and proving once and for all time that space exploration is just too expensive to have any practical
*Those who care for nothing but the amount left in their retirement accounts at death, those wh
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This is a concept for lunar industrial development.
...ologically possible to produce a space based solar power (SBSP) system for Earth from lunar materials, but the economics cause difficult constraints and the
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...ve analysis that does not blink in the face of the great problems foreseen for the 21st century.
...Flight Center), we must start by developing a working view of the future. For the difficult times that are likely in the 21st century, this analysis need
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...akness of the ISS program to generate the critical lessons learned we need for a large back to the Moon program.
...m a technical standpoint, its assertion that the ISS is in the wrong orbit for access to the moon is just plain silly. It appears to be motivated by pure
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...NASA only does nonprofit missions such as robot probes to celestial bodies for scientific data and astronaut missions to celestial bodies to demonstrate t
...possible for a government department to be and it is a rather sorry excuse for a technologically advanced government department that they continue to do t
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