...factors including technical, price, and schedule. The agency may make one or more awards per task order." <ref name="SPD1" />.
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...eant the President was not interested in our plans following the moon shot or our rocket team’s future.
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...vances in mathematics and science like the works of Pythagoras and Newton, or Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity.
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...block all progress. All the other problems then become nothing but smoke or red herrings. Spotting and solving Show Stoppers is one of the great skills
The NASA-sponsored Return to the Moon could be terminated, scaled back, or otherwise changed in a way that would make it simply a colossal waste of mo
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...elp on this project, try writing a business plan for any of these concepts or one of your own. For tips on writing a business plan see [[Business Plan f
...|electromagnetic launching system]] that effectively gets the oxygen to L2 or circular orbit without using more than a minor amount of maneuvering fuel.
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...her [[Volatiles]]. The settlement would be located at either of the poles or at the equator. The settlement would ideally be started immediately follow
..., facilities will be available for some form of recreation, be it exercise or what have you.
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...it easier to go along with the program than to get rid of an inconvenient or unauthorized item by simply flushing it. Personnel will have access to a w
...form flow conditions. The biological treatment of waste can use a greater or a lesser flow, but transitions should be gradual and managed.<ref>[http://w
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...on Terror. Either we find effective ways to address the terrorist problem or we will have to wait more decades to return to the Moon while current histo
If our enemies use examples of trash from our culture, be it strip malls or porn stars, to condemn us, it is time to bring forward the very best our so
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...utilizes resources in the most efficient manner, using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness. The 5 main concepts of economics are
The economy of the individual or firms.
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...utilizes resources in the most efficient manner, using the minimum of time or resources necessary for effectiveness. The 5 main concepts of economics are
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We cannot repeat Apollo. We must develop commercial operations on the Moon or there is simply no reason to go back.
...requirements suggest a system of optical stations around the world. Four or five Earth stations should do and they can be easily integrated with existi
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...ike as we cross over the top of this curve, as we drop down the back side, or as we reach a sustainable value. One likely course is that we will keep ou
There is an abundance of deuterium, or hydrogen-2, in the ocean that could be used for fusion fuel. Its problem is
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...tations and therefore unable to lay a solid foundation for its predictions or to address some of the hard questions that lie in our path. This paper has
...without thought the visions of people who are promoting one savior concept or technology. In the end, we need a view of the future that can serve as the
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...subject, '''weapons''' -- manufactured or improvised; officially permitted or otherwise -- are a fact of life that will need to be addressed.
...pressurized hull with hard vacuum on the other side and potentially dozens or more people at risk of decompression from even an accidental discharge. Fur
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...hed can be higher than the escape velocity of most planets for long tracks or high accelerations.
**With an acceleration of 2g, or 20 km/s the time required is 2000/20 = 100 seconds
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...sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harv
Bees--whether you love them or hate them are an important insect, contributing an enormous amount to our f
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...o the brick surface and is left to harden. An important point is that one or another process for lunar development will not work as imagined, but when t
...in titanium metallurgy, in which casting can be done in an argon, hydrogen or helium atmosphere. Argon would be preferred for lower thermal conductivity
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...er must either be made to endure 354 hour days followed by 354 hour nights or be considered a [[Throwaway Rovers|disposable rover]]. If we can not build
...ould survive the day. The rover using such a radiator would best have six or more legs, so it could walk any direction without changing its heading.
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...pachinko] pins. A large enough number of electrons through the dual slits or pachinko balls through the set of pins will be distributed statistically ac
...tron is bound to an atom, molecule or crystal, it is always in one orbital or another. The orbitals are more restricted in space than free electrons. T
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...we can take to do this job that are far more effective than just guessing or looking into crystal ball. Here are the processes that were used to predic
People can be motivated either to move away from pain or to move toward pleasure. The easiest thing to do is to first tell people a
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...ability of lunar industry]] to attack if the United States, Russia, China, or the European Union decided they did not like the industry. There are inter
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...before any humans arrive. (See [[First Base]], and try to imagine whether or not such a base will require a million tons of stuff.) Using remotely oper
...e habitats can be built from lunar materials. It may take a hundred years or more, but it will not get done if we limit ourselves to the things that can
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...ally be shipped to Luna it is still less costly than the polar power tower or an entire power distribution grid. Start small and build up to the power d
...r would provide good thermal protection. A zipper might work for the door or a door panel might be fitted with hooks to hang from a ledge included in th
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...ive decay of [[Potassium]] and/or [[Krypton]] deep within the lunar mantle or core([[Volatiles|read more]])
...ive out the water. Then the heating is increased to cause partial melting or vitrification which results in the edges of adjacent grains being bonded to
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...na]] or manufactured there, it might be located at 85 degrees either north or south latitude. It should be at the point that is furthest from Earth at t
...suggest, as was suggested for Larry Niven’s Ringworld, that a solid shell (or ring) around a star is dynamicly unstable. Larry Niven inserted station ke
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...e loud speakers awoke everyone and announced that everyone having a Junior or Senior status were to assemble in formation on the parade ground in front.
...alk of Fame” to see the famous Stars. Who knows, I might see a movie star or two. I walked down to Hollywood and Vine Street, to say I had been at the
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The plagioclase crystals are needle-shaped or blocky, as large as several hundred micrometers. Pyroxene and olivine cryst
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...plan,if any engines fail to start or needs restarting on the Fourth Stage or the Command Module, a procedure would be provided to the astronauts to resc
...ed Apollo flight for Brownie and Pad 34A. They may not have been cautioned or briefed by the KSC managers, as we had been at MSFC, on manned flight work
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...duced by a [[carbonyl process]]. Printing takes place on a metal, ceramic, or [[regolith]] base in an atmosphere of these metal carbonyls. Using a laser
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...creating a series of ‘terraces’ on the crater’s inner walls. Central peak or peaks also form at this time (Fig 11: side view of the central peaks in Cra
...rts of the complex craters are, then, the central uplift, which can be one or several peaks that may attain heights of over a 1000 meters. Moving form t
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...to escape (called degassing). These gasses—thought to be carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide—act as propellants, shooting the lava high above the lunar
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...all his actual name. No mention of this were ever made in the base papers or records.
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...mportant of these clubs was the Verein fur Raumschiffarht (Rocket Society) or the "Society for Space Travel." Oberth became something of a godfather for
...puter, ME=Manufacturing Engineering, QUAL=Quality Inspection, Others Noted or Unknown:
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...raints in which something can be accomplished, the more cost effective and/or profitable that accomplishment tends to be.
...and communications equipment. Cargoes of fuel and rockets to be refueled or assembled would dock with the spin up/spin down portion while it is not rot
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*One potential way to reuse rocket boosters or first stage rockets is to launch from the ocean as SeaLaunch does, and posi
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...earing lubricants from evaporating. At least a gas tight covering of knee or elbow joints could be done with a bellows that has flanges pressed to point
...vehicles might work with ordinary greased bearings and frequent lube jobs, or the lubricant requirement might be solved by special grease and thermal man
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...ury and a powder containing the balance of the ingredients, such as silver or gold. Minor amounts of other elements have been shown by experience to pro
...be done in a glove box with an argon atmosphere. Experiments with sodium or potassium on Earth are inherently dangerous. Sodium and potassium are fire
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...EVA to breath pure oxygen for a few hours to purge their body of nitrogen, or to "camp out" overnight in a low pressure atmosphere. This is time consumin
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...roids or electrostatically levitated dust || can not be breathed by people or internal combustion engines __ requires about the same suit protection of p
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*On Luna people will want smooth roads that are dust free and do not buckle or crack with the monthly temperature changes. This can be achieved by shadin
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...they appear in a masterful artistic display of governmental “double talk” or “gobble gook” confusion. The report appeared to say everything yet, it
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...pate in any project problems. He projected himself into the projects so he or any team member could help resolve problems quickly. Team work was the orde
...saw something risky in a design produced by, say, electrical engineers, he or she was required to drop everything and investigate the problem. No one was
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...the “Army’s chain of command” and this was not going to win the space race or put a man on the moon very quickly. MSFC had the assignment to come up wit
...erested offices a copy of the document for information to read and dispose or file in that office’s Project File. Only Project Files were authorized. T
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...ne in which the spacecraft receives a single instantaneous momentum input, or impulse, which imparts (as kinetic energy) the total mechanical energy requ
...terception will occur, depending on whether the interception occurs before or after apoapsis. What is not quite so obvious is that interception can also
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...al with and they were not giving up control to Congress in contracting out or picking favored contractors. One Congressmen said, “von Braun would lau
Other signs at MSFC that seemed to indicate there was a plan to ease control or loosen the grip the Germans had. The slow replacement of Germans with Amer
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...or argon. Without some source of inert gas making a breathable atmosphere or using some industrial processes would be impossible. People should conside
...be launched from Luna with [[Mass Drivers]] [[List of Propulsion Systems|(or other low cost per ton technologies)]] and transferred from Earth's orbital
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...unches," said our Group Leader. "Dr. von Braun will not stand for failures or mistakes," he added.
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...and one toward Luna, these masses can be adjusted to provide thrust toward or away from Luna. If one mass is depended by tidal force to 5.25*10^7 meters
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...eer, sometimes may feel that he or she should work around normal processes or make changes for his Project as seen necessary for the safety and certifica
...res established for shipping standards. The Project Engineer could change or submit the packaging instructions accordingly, he always must approve the j
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...t be deterred. The exploration of space will go ahead, weather we join in or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which
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...ar orbit the spacecraft will scan the lunar surface for a heritage landing or crash site. Once located, the lander will detach, initiate descent, and so
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...rust system which only requires a source of electrical energy (solar power or nuclear power) and a relatively small amount of ionizable reaction mass (su
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...result in a flywheel with 5.02 * 10<sup>6</sup> watt seconds per kilogram or 1400 watt hours per kilogram. This would not be the kind of flywheel that
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...ised if the decrease in cost to orbit from that amounts to a factor of ten or more. It will not be enough to make simply lifting a solar power station t
...ventional lubricants are used. NASA would not put a robot in a space suit or even cover its joints with a gas tight protective flexible housing. Have t
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...id of intersecting tunnels, each closed of at the ends by a air tight wall or, on occasion, an airlock. Within this grid, sections can be closed of with
This approach requires the ability to make shotcrete(or gunite) on location. This means being able to make shotcrete from lunar reg
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...limit the mass accelerated by an all electric mass-driver to 10 kilograms or less in early stage lunar export transportation proposals.
...he rails; and a second portion consisting of the spacecraft carrying cargo or carrying passengers, environmental equipment, maneuvering thrusters, radio
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...undersea dredging machine called Spider that can move about with thrusters or powered tracks. It uses water jetting and suction to move sea bottom mater
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...that must be stored in an accumulator, such as a capacitor bank, batteries or induction rings. This energy can later be used to launch payloads.
for an acceleration (a) of 2g, or 20 m/s2, the time required is 90 seconds.
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...flat places with less than 83 degrees latitude on the near-Earth meridian or somewhat higher latitude mountain tops). Electrical power distribution gri
...led lunar industry are uncertain of success and likely to take fifty years or more to show a profit if they succeed; at least they have a plan and intent
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...could lose heat by radiation, but would not be exposed to either sunlight or the infrared radiations of the surrounding landscape. It would radiate int
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...toms or molecules — that is, to completely remove an electron from an atom or molecule. Instead of producing charged ions when passing through matter, th
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...to intellectual property laws by its nature, if the copyright has expired, or if the copyright has been forfeited. Examples include the natural language
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...de an adequate seal. To open the door the gasket would either be reheated or broken.
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Hydroponics is a technology for growing plants in nutrient solutions with or without the use of an artificial medium to provide mechanical support.
...ar mission or hydrogen is carried and converted to water with lunar oxygen or ice deposits on Luna must be mined for the water. The first steps of the l
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...around in a circle instead of flying off on a tangent. If the steel rim (or steel tire) has a cross sectional area of 6.35 square inches (41 cm^2) then
...nd spin down on the same hub to transfer cargo to and from the first wheel or directly to and from Luna.
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...ductors|electrical conductor]], and silicon could be used for solar panels or [[In-Situ Propellant Production|rocket fuel]]), this extra energy cost may
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...ing atmospheres. Others require oxidizing atmospheres, inert atmospheres, or vacuum.
...in different compartments. Ambient vacuum as part of sintered brick walls or regolith fines packed in walls will provide adequate insulation. Air condi
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...rized vehicle, enter, close the air tight door and pressurize the vehicle; or he would walk to a pressurized vehicle and enter by cycling an air lock. T
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...n story or computer game, reviewing key historic and scientific locations, or scouting a destination for a mission you would like to lead.
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...alloy into [[iron]] and [[titanium]] could be done by either distillation or [[Carbonyl process|carbonyl extraction]].
...carbonyl extraction]], distillation, grinding followed by use of a magnet, or by melting and then allowing the products to separate out. The remaining ti
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The resulting sponge of [[titanium]] metal is then either crushed and washed or subjected to vacuum distillation to remove the magnesium chloride, and then
...n]], distillation, grinding and removing the iron particles with a magnet, or melting and then allowing the products to separate. The [[rutile|titanium d
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...be sufficiently strong / flexible to survive this shaking without buckling or leaking atmosphere, and internal furnishings/equipment would need to be sec
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...hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen collects at the anode (positively charged or ground connection), and the hydrogen collects at the cathode (the negative
...likely be the method of choice, as it is simpler and has roughly the same (or higher) efficiencies when using electricity.
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...ogen (see [[Lunar_Carbon_Production#Methane_Reduction|previous section]]), or used for the production of other hydrocarbons.
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...uld be required. The ports could be associated with over 30,000 cylinders or with 7600 cylinders if the ports are ganged 4 pair to a cylinder. The tran
...er glass or sifted sand of various types. Most things that could be mined or manufactured on Luna could be exported to L2 with such a gun. This is just
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...nt. Although there are still differences of opinion on which is the best, or least evil, of systems of government; the Apollo program was successful for
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...d the NASA firewall, material placed on it does not constitute publication or release of information to the public under the color of NASA’s authority.
...have a spell checker of any kind, and (2) accept pictures, graphs, tables, or equations. The suggested solution to this problem involves rebuilding the
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...n-a-million shot, but there are millions of them possibly out there so one or more Black Swans shows up every year.
Some Black Swans are bad (like 9/11 or the raise of Adolf). Some Black Swans are good (like the Internet and the
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...e structure being made is not for the purpose of containing oxygen, water, or water vapor.
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...be done. Refractory materials employed in casting like silica, magnesia, or alumina are attacked by titanium with great severity. Powder metallurgy has
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...It is possible to take iron rods or bars and pack them in carbon powder, or take plates of iron and sandwich carbon powder between them, and bring the
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Engineering details might seem dull or trivial, but
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...eel or 200 to 400 tons of 25% Ni steel. This could be alloyed with Al and/or Ti but Nb and Mo are too rare on the Moon and Co, though it can be extracte
...bon from polar ices. Presently, there is no way to predict how productive or unproductive polar ice mining will be.
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...tion on her own display. The worker can be warned to head for the air lock or a rescue team can rush in to retrieve her.
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...of our Lab’s Supply Branch, would handle requests for stock nuts and bolts or raw materials items. Things picked up with the launch of America’s first
...ed Merchant Marine Captain was hired from New Orleans to command it, sober or not, the skipper worked hard on this project. I used the system to ship t
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...space power, but sadly that's not reflected in the corridors of White Hall or the board rooms in Britain.
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...he Marshall Space Flight Center(MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, was building or buying, shipping rocket components to KSC and using their services to launc
...the rocket’s flame was the right color and to decide to cutoff the engine or release the rocket into space flight.
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...d project to have students work on? We do have a student membership class, or rather a student chapter membership class."
:*Integrate or at least connect new site into existing back infrastructure<br/> as of 15 A
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...g the length of the spacecraft carrier to counter any tendency to pitch up or down. Electrically enhanced rigidity is achieved with electromagnets varyi
...ting the device at Luna will not guarantee success in deploying it at Mars or Earth.
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...antages and disadvantages. Naturally having to ship the device from Earth or build the industry on Luna to build the railgun is an obvious difficulty.
Since the purpose on Luna would be putting cargo in orbit or putting it at L2, instead of shelling enemy installations as was the goal o
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...out of the features on Jupiter, the billowing gasses of a distant nebula, or even the light of distant stars. In reality, if a stargazer needs to peer i
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...Brick Construction|inside]] where an inert atmosphere will not cause rust or corrosion to susceptible metals. A person can then do maintenance work wea
...a supply of oxygen and a scrubber to remove carbon dioxide. The nitrogen or other inert gas (such as argon) is recycled. Sensors monitor the breathing
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...ir of equipment for vacuum use that would be damaged by exposure to oxygen or moisture is best carried out in a dry, inert atmosphere. A SCIBA suit allo
...eturn trips to Earth so there can be an exchange of personnel after a year or so tour of duty. Developing this situation should start with machines remo
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...led, the task can be undertaken by remote control by a person on the moon, or it can be handled by a person in a surface vehicle using attached manipulat
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