...lar solids will require grinding wheels that should be produced from local materials. They need to contain a considerable proportion of grit harder than basalt
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Sintered [[regolith]] falls into the category of ceramic materials as sintering is the process most common to ceramics. When bricks are made
...moon. More will be known about the quality of bricks possible from lunar materials when the research can be done on Luna. A possibility to consider is the [[
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...rth-scarce resources (such as Helium-3 for fusion power) and providing the materials to build in space large colonizing vessels to make cyclically repeating voy
Wikiversity has learning materials about Lunar Boom Town
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...ssible? Yes and the lunar elevator = skyhook can likely be built with 2007 materials. There is lots of correct info at www.liftport.com There is also a forum wh
CNT has a theroretical strength of 1000 GPa and several other materials are almost as good. So far, the macro strength of actual ribbon has been mu
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...g innovative lighting techniques, the conversion and [[ISRU|use of in-situ materials]] as an expandable growing medium, and ensuring the survival of agricultura
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It might be possible to develop suitable flexible insulator materials by means of silicon polymer chemistry.
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...a dependable small impulse by a simple rocket that can be made from lunar materials. By guesstimation such a rocket might have an exhaust velocity of 1500 met
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With no atmosphere and a surface made up almost entirely of rocky materials with low thermal conductivity and relatively low heat capacity, during the
...2-3 K (-270 degrees C), and would likely form cold traps holding volatile materials.
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...lysis''' is one proposed method of producing [[LUNOX | oxygen]] from lunar materials. In its simplest form, the method consists of melting the lunar regolith a
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...size for mortar and filler in grades of coarser chunks for concrete. All materials must be reasonably available on Luna.
...ted time when mixing the cement. Vapor deposition occurs on Luna whenever materials with a substantial equilibrium vapor pressure are exposed to vacuum. So va
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Railroads are one of best methods of moving materials over landscapes. In the short run they are expensive to build yet over the
...will experience wear at an accelerated rate. Paving a road with dust free materials does not solve the problem because the sunlight will cause the dust to clim
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...effects of long term exposure to the harsh environment of space on various materials which could be used in future spacecraft and outposts.
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...ay to reach them is to reach their teachers. This will require structured materials and student projects that meet the teacher’s now highly defined needs. T
...well thought through and does not require a lunar settlement or even lunar materials. It is however very risky with our present state of knowledge about human
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More convential batteries that can use local materials are iron/air, aluminum/air and iron salts and water. The first two need lit
Reflectors, salts and insulating containers could all be fabricated from materials on Luna, requiring little or no supplies to be shipped from Earth.
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...a SCIBA suit on Earth could be research involving molten titanium or other materials that need to be protected from a breathable atmosphere. It may be practica
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...imes create ore bodies. The most interesting of which would be [[volatile materials]] associated with [[vents]]. The orange regolith found in Apollo-17 was th
The weakness of this plan is that the valuable materials are not concentrated. We will have to process many tons of regolith an hou
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...lternative that was a credible way of opening up the industrial use of raw materials in space for profit in some faster way.
...e to emigrate from Earth as fast as space habitats can be built from lunar materials. It may take a hundred years or more, but it will not get done if we limit
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...tting from one place all of the raw materials needed to supplement the raw materials available on Luna.
...s could be a major source of cash. Luna would get the cash from Earth for materials that go into space based solar power plants, habitats and other orbiting st
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...used as a tracer when looking for geologic concentrations of KREEP-bearing materials. The rim of Mare Imbrium is neatly traced by thorium's gamma ray emissions
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...re lava, and bluish to the northwest, caused by the excavation of highland materials in the plateau. The extent of the continuous ejecta blanket also appears as
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