mills and extruders with lunar materials rather than ship
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...including budgeting, development, mock-ups, testing, some design control, materials, process procedures, manufacturing orders, and authority to design and prod
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[[List of Construction Materials]]<BR/>
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...e materials from earlier separation for use in the process. The available materials include:
Finding low-maintenance materials for this environment will also be difficult. We are dealing with tones of
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*Processing Lunar Soils for Oxygen and Other Materials. Knudsen & Gibson [http://nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol3/plsoom1.htm
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...berglass. Capital investments can include larger antennas made from lunar materials for more communications band width. Wire lines can connect the polar regio
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...="Holloman"/> The pressure vessel on Luna could be constructed from local materials, perhaps using [[Sintered Brick Construction]] methods. The electrical por
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...e, the rocket section has no father use and can be scavenged for parts and materials. It never leaves the Moon again.
...will have to be shipped from Earth and that will likely amount to tons of materials. There are probably simpler ways to shield a habitat with these levels of
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...nar [[anhydrous]] glass,<ref>Blacic, J.D., "Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Struct
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...significant problem of being really cold. If they possess usable building materials like iron dust then building a tower may be the best way of solving this pr
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...tmosphere. This adaptation should not be too challenging but a great many materials may need to be tested in realistic lunar conditions.
...need bright colored [[paint]]. The bulk of the paint must come from lunar materials. [[Titanium]] is available on Luna. [[Titanium dioxide]] is used as a whi
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...s it needs to be to support the wheel without calling for any super strong materials because the added stress from the hub's additional thickness is based upon
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...Los Alamos National Laboratory wrote about "Mechanical Properties of Lunar Materials Under Anhydrous, Hard Vacuum Conditions: Applications of Lunar Glass Struct
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...60 concluded that use of lunar resources would be cheaper than terrestrial materials for a system comprising as few as thirty Solar Power Satellites of 10GW cap
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...bers of devices. When some of this work involves working with machines or materials that would be harmed by exposure to oxygen or moisture, a person can wear a
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The magnetic materials ([[Ilmenite]] and iron oxide) could be stored for production of [[titanium]
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....GIF|160px|left]] Sintered [[regolith]] falls into the category of ceramic materials as sintering is the process most common to ceramics. When bricks are made
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...ricants for space use. Currently very high priced space versions of these materials (for example $700.00 a pound for grease) are available.
Materials designed for the worst Earth industrial environments are becoming available
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...le to produce a space based solar power (SBSP) system for Earth from lunar materials, but the economics cause difficult constraints and the current geopolitical
==Mining the building materials==
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...until the industry in cis-lunar space has gone through a large quantity of materials, building space based solar power, space telescopes, habitats and other thi
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