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PRELUDE

WHERE TO

THE RETURN

BREAKOUT AGENDA

SETTLEMENT GROWTH

TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE

Exports & Market Development

Specific markets

  • Low Earth Orbit industrial parks
  • Low Earth Orbit tourist facilities
  • Mars, Phobos, Deimos
made-on-Luna heavy equipment
Nuclear fuels (lunar thorium 232 > uranium 233)
Seasoned pioneers
Technology expertise
  • Asteroids
  • other

Value added product types

  • Products made for domestic use
  • Construction materials
  • Furnishings
  • Arts & crafts
  • Unique jewelry
  • Food products
  • New crop variety seeds
  • Lunar-sourced chemical fuels
  • Lunar-produced nuclear fuels (the thorium 232 > uranium 233 cycle), essential to the opening of Mars to settlement
  • other

Raw materials to be processed in space for solar power satellite construction

Technology licenses

  • Biospheric technologies
  • Agricultural technologies
  • Recycling technologies
  • Building material technologies
  • Poor ore mining technologies
  • other

Infotainment products

  • Travelogues
  • Explorations
  • Dance, sport, music, etc.

Other "zero-mass" products

Energy exports

  • Lunar fuels
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Silane
other
Lunar processed nuclear fuels (thorium 232 > uranium 233)
  • Lunar solar arrays
  • Helium-3
  • Building materials for solar power satellites
  • other

Development of other export markets

LEO industrial parks

LEO tourist clusters

GEO satellite farm-platforms

L4, L5 Lunar Flank relays, telescopes

L1, L2 Lunar Gateways for people, cargo

Asteroid mission support

Mars, Phobos, Deimos

Other

Imports

The "MUS/cle strategy" for Import Reduction

Institute of Lunar-apropriate Industrial Design

Stowaway import strategies

Development of locally made substitutes

Going without

Developing other import market sources

Phobos, Deimos (methane, ammonia?)

Mars ("pipeline" inventory items)

Near-Earth asteroids (volatiles, lunar-deficient elements)

comets (volatiles)

other

HEALTHY CITIZENS

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