...compressed floor materials. The terraces form due to heavy loads (the rim materials) sitting on deeply fractured ground (the fractures are from the shock wave
...the shock wave further dissipates, it is no longer able to melt the target materials, but instead only fractures the rock. This fractured rock is again pushed i
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#[https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19800007749 Handbook of Lunar Materials] -
...lpi.usra.edu/lunar/strategies/SP509-3-Materials.pdf Space Resources: Vol 3 Materials] -
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...that on Phobos, Deimos, or Ceres, poses a problem to manufacturing. Loose materials floating more freely pose a risk to both the removal of material from the g
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...in that they are possible. I will not be surprised if improved structural materials and improved thrust to weight engines someday make SSTO vehicles practical
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...ought to wait until there is more time to provide such out of mainly lunar materials.
...as described in [[Sintered Brick Construction]]) could be built from local materials when there is time to develop some industry. A covering of about 30 centim
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...ng human trade and industry into orbit on a wave of cheaply provided lunar materials? It would require industry on the moon. It would require time, money, and
...sidered for SBSP built from Earth launched materials. Building with lunar materials requires a time lag for the building of lunar industry, but no new scienti
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...e moon has a low viscosity (it is very thin and runny). Indeed, when lava materials were melted on earth, it was shown to have the consistency of motor oil. T
...ker lava beneath it. The ejecta from this crater will include those darker materials (an example of this was Crater Shorty, which was visited by the Apollo miss
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...go from producing the iron, glass, calcium, and aluminum from crude lunar materials to making an electromagnetic mass accelerator. If we start out along the p
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...red with electrolysis, as well as requiring careful selection of apparatus materials due to the high temperature and corrosive environment. However, the sulfur
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...developed further to allow mass emigration from Earth and to deliver lunar materials to orbit for building the homes for emigrants, space habitats.
...erating on Luna to supply low cost materials in orbit or another source of materials should be available. Demonstrating the device at Luna will not guarantee s
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The following materials were critical in the development of the [[Future Work for NASA]] entry:
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...ld be built in a polar region. It would require that the vast majority of materials be locally obtained. The greenhouse would be built as a 100 meter diameter
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..., known as ''silicones'', are flexible compounds sometimes used as sealing materials.
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...been many suggestions for mass drivers on Luna for the exportation of raw materials and other purposes, notably by Gerard K. O'Neill (God rest his soul) and th
...processing. This scheme calls for the mass driver to be built from lunar materials by remote controled devices. So there will be the infrastructure for manuf
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...ose heat to the lunar surface directly by conduction. They can be made of materials resistant to cold temperatures. Little heat will be lost through six long
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...months must be discovered. Replacing worn out machines with mostly lunar materials will require some minimum lifetime for the production equipment. If remedi
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...e for many millions of years. When [[comet]]s hit the moon, the [[volatile materials]] form an extremely thin [[lunar atmosphere]]. During the day, these partic
...These include: [[hydrogen]], [[water]], [[iron]], and [[titanium]]. These materials will greatly reduce the cost of operations in space.
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...to be necessary. A centrifuge can be constructed on the Moon out of lunar materials to provide for the health of personnel that maintain the base.
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...model is in how it can organize data to predict new useful and interesting materials and devices.
...it apparatus should be made with exactly the same dimensions but different materials. If the material of the apparatus in no way affects the intensity, shape o
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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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...be many years in the future. If the Lunar economy is based upon exporting materials to produce space based solar power plants in orbit, oxygen from [[Ilmenite
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...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 manned launch
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Between the temperatures of 700 C and 1400 C additional volatile materials come off including substantial amount so nitrogen, carbon monoxide, [[hydro
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...aier, NASA Glenn Research Center, pdf of report to Lunar Regolith Simulant Materials Workshop
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...rongest skill. I had great resources, I provided for myself from left over materials from other project engineers (raiding the junk yard was a weekly thing for
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...Volatiles Harvester (LVH) will process lunar regolith and capture volatile materials, such as hydrogen, by the application of heat and mechanical manipulation.
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...ce frontier artist by experimenting with "lunar paints" made entirely from materials producible from moondust. [http://www.lunar-reclamation.org/art/painting_ex
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...awa M.J., and Reid K.J. (1990) Preparation of simulants for lunar surface materials. Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space II, American Society of
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...ottom and work up. This school pays close attention to the properties of materials and new technologies. There is another school of design that says you must
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