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...I write on Lunarpedia, I am not anti-NASA, I'm just not spellbound by NASA or most of the models and plans for returning to the Moon presented by them. I I do not subscribe to "Space Exploration" in the NASA or Star Trek mold. Exploration is a means to an end, not an end in itself as d

...have either Fe⁺²Fe⁺²(Si,Al)₂O₆ or Fe⁺²Y(Si,Al)₂O₆, with Y being some other m ...s on Luna. This means that iron minerals that are common on Earth are rare or nonexistent on Luna. The reverse is also true.

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...ring eclipses of the Moon by Earth. Some Polar high spots are high enough or nearly so to be constantly in the sunlight.^[1]

...me face towards its orbital center. The cause of tidal lock is tidal drag or tidal acceleration, which is a force created in an object spinning at a dif

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...>. The period is then equal to the circumference divided by the velocity, or For hohmann transfer up or down between circular orbits, the delta v (change in velocity) needed to pa

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...tic Compatibility]</ref> Design to reduce the amount of [[RF leakage]] and/or reduce the amount of coupling to the electronic "victim". EMI can be a prob ...re attractive, because thermal losses become more of a concern, and copper or gold wires imported from Earth need to be as thin and light as possible.

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...s to Earth orbit) and with the [[Saturn V]] booster (for missions to orbit or land on the moon). The Apollo project comprised 14 launches, plus an addit

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...r environment, whether for building spacecraft, lunar habitats, machinery, or industrial processing equipment. It is expected that titanium production wi

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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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...les) surface through a process sometimes referred to as "impact gardening" or "space weathering." It is estimated that the regolith varies in thickness ...rchangeably. The dusty, abrasive portion is referred to as [[Lunar Dust]] or "Fines."

...location. The phrase is from the Latin ''in situ'', meaning "at the site", or "in place." ISRU can be categorized into production of materials useful at

'''In-Situ Propellant Production''', or ''ISPP'', refers to manufacture of rocket fuel from local resources, a subs ...the substances used in the manufacture of terrestrial propellants are rare or nonexistent in the lunar environment. Hence, this issue has produced a numb

...t. If remedies are found to allow a rover to be fully functional for four or more months, it will have been learned that not only are such remedies effe

...mple of reduction is that of reducing ore (in the form of a metallic oxide or sulfide) to metal. Chemically, reduction reactions are always paired with

...on at one end. Connected to this is a long tent like hall running in more or less a straight line for up to 100 meters. The hall is covered with 2.5 me One end or the other usually has an airlock assembly with a ramp leading down to the d

...cellent corrosion resistance and durability. Measured either in quantity or value, aluminum's use exceeds that of any other metal except iron, and it i ...lle process. Alternatives include ion-sputtering, carbothermal reduction, or an adaptation of the [[FFC Cambridge Process]].

...sparent solid which may be found in crystalline or amorphous form. Silica or silicate is the primary constituent of [[glass]]. While a form of glass ca ...constitutes more than 25% of the Earth's crust. Silica (SiO2) as quartz or quartzite is used to produce silicon ferroalloys and silicon metal. Deman

...soybeans and other legumes, recover nitrogen directly from the atmosphere or from the soil in a process know as "fixation," whereby the plant incorporat

...le by entering the name “Google moon”. (“moon” alone will not work well.) Or your can enter the address directly. It is: http://www.google.com/moon/ Select zoom level 4. The seas or mares are clearly visible as are the rayed craters. Now click the elevatio

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...'' will be important as industrial sites become active and colonies become or begin to work towards independence. Whether it is a nation, a group of nations, or commercial interests that finance a lunar colony; the source of the money w

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...pure Chromium, or could be used directly for production of stainless steel or other iron alloys.

...ity that produces dark glass; glass containing iron will be yellow, brown, or black depending on the iron content. (For example, obsidian, a naturally-fo [[Silicon | Silica]] or [[silicate]] is the primary constituent of glass, which is abundant on the

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...process chemistry does not require finding any particular mineral source, or beneficiation of the soil to enhance the content of a particular mineral.

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...ite flowers. I use it fresh in salads, as a garnish in a glass of sambvca or tea, and When finely diced it is an excellent addition to steamed and butte ...erbed veloute (stock or fumet based white sauce) which is served over fish or poultry.

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**12.33 year half life. Undergoes Beta Decay to become [[Helium 3]]([[He3]] or [[He3|³He]]) ...for any volatiles that happen to pass into them, whether from comet impact or ongoing creation via the solar wind. As a result, they contain significant

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...rough or paved surface in a vehicle or to mix your material with a liquid or gas and send it through a pipe. ...mping the track. All materials would be securely fastened with either lids or binding clamps.

...y very near the horizon. Occasionally, it may be blocked by mountain tops or local installations such as other power collectors. During the dark local ...or or dynamo. Two popular cycles for Solar Dynamic are [[Brayton Cycle]] or [[Stirling Cycle]]. Solar Dynamic systems employ a large reflector to f

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...get ever colder. [[Venus]] was imagined to be a hot, steamy jungle planet, or perhaps a planet covered completely with a hot global ocean. His keen inter ...’s rocks: it literally means (in Greek and German, respectively) Rock Cook or Rock Chef!

...recruited into the Libertarian Party by the late Ron Crickenburger in 1989 or 1990 while at Georgia Tech in Atlanta.

...daytime temperatures get higher than the melting point of sodium, an iron or aluminum pipe filled with sodium would make a good electrical conductor.

...comes from radioactive decay of Potassium-40 deep within the lunar mantle or core, and that the Argon-40 seeps out to the surface via fissures. This [

...e with oxygen, any use in this manner would be limited to the lunar vacuum or areas containing an inert atmosphere.

...on. As it is one of the main industrial metal, it will either be imported or replaced by [[aluminum]]. Replacement of copper by aluminum on Earth has b

...tope (²⁰⁹Bi) has a half-life of about 1.9*10¹⁹ years or ten-thousand-million-billion years. That is a time so long that only a sma

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...ning serious revenue to begin defraying the costs. Eventually, 100 miners or more would be desirable to begin turning a healthy profit. As with most th

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...o be insulating [[conduits]]. Such conduits could be made from ceramics, or [[silicon polymers]]. There is unlimited [[Silicon|silicon]] on the Moon. ...s, or [[sleeving]] material, then via a process such as [[heat-shrinking]] or [[extrusion]], attach the Earth-made insulation to lunar-made wires.

...s, or [[sleeving]] material, then via a process such as [[heat-shrinking]] or [[extrusion]], attach the Earth-made insulation to lunar-made wires.

...raining. Others will go to the Moon with specific intentions, like mining or settlement. They may be called "Mooners" or "Luners".

...anent residents and probably the only permanent residents for thirty years or so until they've constructed sufficient habitats to support settlers. ...ous groups will probably hate each other's guts. A tourist who bought his or her way to the Moon and then descided they wanted to stay would certainly b

A fluid (liquid or gas) is circulated through serpentine plumbing in metal panels which face t ...o maintain the temperature of electronic equipment. These may need shades or louvers.

*Many may be cranes or other construction equipment *Some robots are stationed at (or are built into) the air lock doors

...t is ingested into the human body, the particles will lay directly on lung or intestine tissue and are carcinogenic. Ingestion of the dust must therefor ...ire high KREEP region is not acceptable for any long-term human settlement or manned mining operation.

We are looking for technologies that are currently available or can be developed with a reasonable effort for the first generation of lunar ...nit is too unwieldy to be practical, the output can be reduced so that two or three units are needed for this output.

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..., or lunar settlement, is a proposed establishment of human settlements in or on the Moon's surface. Habitation of lunar land could potentially benefit ...d also allow emergency supplies to quickly reach a Moon colony from Earth, or allow a human crew to evacuate relatively quickly from the Moon to Earth in

...istance, making each grain fall at the same rate regardless of its density or size. ...charged material is then separated using a charged plate, either as a drum or in a gravitationally assisted separation chamber, as is done in magnetic be

...inverting the equation gives the maximum day-time high on the Moon: 394 K or about 120 degrees C. ...er you are at the equator during lunar morning or evening, near the poles, or looking at a rock face sharply angled to the horizontal, the surface temper

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...or not the final NMR imaging will be worth the extra cost of the helium-3 or if it will make it too expensive to be competitive with a regular MRI. Wit

...all or most with dry stoen stacking. Dry stone walls can be pretty stable. Or use a solar mirror to sinter slightly.

...therland or individuals or things grouped in a place with a common purpose or a particular population of some species such as ants. Artists' colonies ne ...explicitly allows for colonies without human colonists, groups of animals or things, and robots are things. The only way robots can be involved in sett

* Reject, handle, or avoid large rocks and craters * Be controlled from Earth, Moon, or by itself

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* Customize the station or buy it customized

...and astronauts does not hit the inflatable walls. There can be a ramp and/or ladder up to the airlock, which is on the rotational axis. Doing some of the experiments while sitting down or lying down (eg. the daily 8 hours of sleep) could reduce this effect and ma

* Is the 7 passenger Dragon spacecraft big enough to ship up a 2 or 3 person crew plus several months worth of supplies?

...ge. A rotating space station needs to be of a sufficiently large diameter or consist of components mounted in a "dumbbell" arrangement.

If you tour any construction site or factory on Earth you will see a number of basic industrial mechanisms that ...probably hold the fine dust. The seals must push this mix out of the way or withstand this extremely abrasive paste for a very long time. A blow out o

:Can you think of a way to do it with concrete? There's one or two concrete solutions that I'm aware of, one with sulfur and one that the Or, if we have a good lunar mortar, we could have robots slowly encase the ope

...''' at their request as part of a '''NASA''' contract there. He is primary or co-author of papers published by the '''Lunar and Planetary Institute''', '

Could organic contamination in a pipe (e.g. oil or soot) spontaneously What else could spontaneously ignite or catalyze with NO at near room

The habitat core also kneels, or lowers itself on its struts. This places its bottom as close to the ground ...l Mechanisms]]). We must assume that we have a good product at this point or the project would simply not get this far.

...siness Plans List]] and think of a name for the idea; something short, one or two words that are easy to guess and easy to remember. This will serve as ...for the first line and the second line: “Near-Term Business Plan Summary” or a reference to another scenario.

...tions, primarily language. A meme can exist in a society for a short time or for an amazingly long time. ...e the problems. For example, the idea that Earth is our only proper home, or the idea that space exploration is an expensive waste. These types of cult

...to harvest from the moon than other [[NEO]]s. KREEP may prove profitable, or it may simply be used for cost reduction (not having to pay shipping from o ...then added to the mix that either move the desired materials into solution or cause them to form a froth of bubbles on top of the solution.

...rhaps we are looking for those few people. Or maybe they just got lucky. Or maybe their vision let a new idea come into being. Sometimes years of study or experience allow someone to realize certain things are reasonably predictab

...term stable lunar orbit, either you have to maintain considerable altitude or you have to choose from a limited number of low orbits that happen to balan ...t for additional mass delivered. The transit time may be a few extra days or even weeks longer than manned flights. If an ion drive transfer rocket is

...le bases on the Moon will either use [[Solar Power]] or [[Nuclear Power]] (or both). ...to both mechanical and electrical power through the use of a steam turbine or Stirling cycle engine.

...comes from radioactive decay of [[Potassium]] deep within the lunar mantle or core, and that the Argon-40 seeps out to the surface via fissures. This ven ...osals include smaller vehicle processing or the use of collection vehicles or other means for bringing regolith to a stationary processing facility.

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...photovoltaic cells would have a better conversion efficiency then silicon or gallium arsenide in unfiltered solar radiation. So, I will revert the edit

...latile Scavenging]] be merged into this article. If you have any concerns or objections, please discuss them on the volatile scavenging discussion page.

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* [http://www.treitel.org/Richard/rass/stalk05.html Would a beanstalk (or "skyhook") be possible on the moon?] ...in the [[CyberTeams]] MOO Server. MOO stands for "MUD (Multi-User Domain, or Multi-User Dungeon) Object Oriented." The CyberTeams MOO Server is based on

...| '''Transportation in, on, or over Luna.''' (Orbital, suborbital, surface or subsurface)<br><br>

...velengths ranging from as long as one meter to as short as one millimeter, or equivalently, with frequencies between 300 MHz (0.3 GHz) and 300 GHz.

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...s'', or without water. This was more profound than the lack of groundwater or permafrost; the water that is incorporated in many minerals on Earth was co ...pector's neutron radiation data. Lunar Prospector observed the background or cosmic neutron radiation and the neutron radiation from the moon as it orbi

...t days the closest I get to being a real scientist is reading Science News or RealClimate.org[http://www.realclimate.org]

...or Lunar development is the pressure inside your [[Space suit|space suit]] or habitat. Here is a listing of the relative pressures of other environments |Leadville Colorado, 10196 ft, or 3107 meters

...es very apparent with bodies of larger mass, such as a moon, planet, star, or galaxy. According to Einstein's general theory of relativity, it is a conse ...less noticeable is the pull smaller objects, such as gas, people, animals, or satellites have on the Earth. This is because the Earth's mass is significa

...I envision shutting down the electric cargo launcher for a half a minute or so whenever there is a passenger launch to divert power. You could write u

...purpose of these controversial questions is not to come to finial answers or even to reach consensuses. It is simply to explore the breath of opinion i

The purpose of these controversial questions is not to come to final answers or even to reach consensus. It is simply to explore the breadth of opinion in

...ion it takes the entire crew of 3 just to run the station, there is little or no science done. ...The results of the test are only applicable to working on a space station or flying to Mars, two expensive things that are not at all urgent. If lunar

...out past the edge of civilization without a good idea of the dangers there or even how to make a living. We will send people knowledgeable and prepared.

...tration of 1/2% this would yield about a kilogram of iron per square meter or 1,000 tons per km2. This is a very high yield of usable material close to a ...th into a suitable liquid, then allowing the rocky dust (mostly [[Basalt]] or similar) to float and the iron particles to sink.

...he Moon which are exposed to the extreme day/night temperature variations, or equipment which operates over a wide temperature range." -permanent.com <re ...s an electrical conductor on Earth. On Luna in a vacuum, inert atmosphere or reducing atmosphere it could serve as an electrical conductor.

...believe they were afraid that they would be blamed if anything was broken or went missing. I am certain they did not understand what we were doing. ...by to have a talk. After some polite conversation he would ask a question or offer to sell us some local produce.

...dred tons of mass. Smaller objects are considered [[Meteorite|Meteorites]] or [[Comet Debris]]. ...evelopment the main questions boil down to these two: 1)What chance do you or your base stand of getting hit by one? 2)Are the asteroids a better source

...nergy and move down slope. It settles into a valley and then can osculate or even execute a random walk around the floor of the valley. It does not mat ...is that we must investigate every conceivable incident no mater how small, or that we should '''not''' name our spacecraft with any word that starts with

Yes, we can still plan lunar missions for a few days or even a few weeks without substantial radiation shielding but anything over ...e to crowd down into a few Cellars with 5 meter shields but only for a day or two. I was wrong.

This may be a bore, but the entire success or failure of the lunar settlement will turn on this concept. ...ined will not have to be imported from earth. Kreep may prove profitable, or it may simply be used for cost reduction (not having to pay shipping etc).

...twice atmospheric pressure under the same conditions normally. A [[steel]] or [[titanium]] structure could be made sufficiently strong to withstand these

Having a right to religion, or to no religion, will help insure diversity in the lunar population. The min ...stly about free, bidirectional communication with Earth. If the government or the company can control that then they can spin problems any way they want.

...arms. I also fully support the right to defend your person, home, property or family against attackers, intruders, burglars and thieves. ...ill be a very tightly sealed environment, and there are no animals to hunt or defend ourselves from. So I must ask the question "Will civilian held guns

The core solution to this problem has to be one or more sources of energy that can provide the world with a massive base level ...for the faint-of-heart! You can either see these challenges as disasters, or you can see them as opportunities. The winners will see them as opportuniti

...for the [[Phase II Settlement]] further inside the lava tubes, housing 200 or more people. ...ing the direct [[magma electrolysis|electrolysis]] of molten [[regolith]], or the indirect [[electrolysis]] of water derived from [[Ilmenite Reduction|hy

...it. Additionally only one pivot connection needs to be made for electrical or plumbing connections which cuts down on maintenance costs. This design is w ...ic piston in accordion fold type sleeve that holds a pound per square inch or so of gas pressure around the hydraulic piston so the lubricant does not ev

...all. It will need to be imported for air for colonists to breathe. Argon or helium can be substituted for nitrogen, but they may be more expensive than

...anometers, or approximately one tenth of the diameter of a droplet of mist or fog. ...e sharp points and edges. These grains have never been weathered by water or rolled by wind which would remove sharp edges.

...l containing carbon, nitrogen, chlorine and hydrogen on Luna that is scrap or can be replaced by local materials so it can be scrapped; then it should be

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...vances in mathematics and science like the works of Pythagoras and Newton, or Quantum Mechanics and the Theory of Relativity.

...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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...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

I have seen no breathrought designs for either propulsion to LEO or power on Earth that could effect the basic curve by much. It is now 2013. ...about advances in "breathrought (sic) designs for either propulsion to LEO or power on Earth" is irrelevant. Industry on Luna can provide the power gene

...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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...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

...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.

...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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...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

...nts. Frequently its automatic selection for where to put it is in the way or inconvenient, so we frequently specify where to put it. -- [[User:Strangelv ...is would be a single use rocket for which the electronic timer and battery or capacitive storage device would be salvaged. Another sort of rocket might

...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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...you supported a different POV in that talk page, I volunteer to revert any or all changes if you think they reflect poorly upon your comments.--[[User:Fa

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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

...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

...to escape (called degassing). These gasses—thought to be carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide—act as propellants, shooting the lava high above the lunar

...all his actual name. No mention of this were ever made in the base papers or records.

...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:

...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

*One potential way to reuse rocket boosters or first stage rockets is to launch from the ocean as SeaLaunch does, and posi

...and them, sufficiently far from anything that would be damaged by the tank or any subsequent moonquakes. [[User:Miros1|Rose/Miros]] 23:47, 26 October 200

...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

...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

...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

...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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...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

...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

...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

...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

...t here on my Wiki Reference Card not to use slash, plus sign, number sign, or any of a number of kinds of brackets in a title. I did not have the refere How is the shuttle launched from the Martian surface? Is it a vertical or horizontal launch? [[User:T.Neo|T.Neo]] 07:53, 4 November 2008 (UTC)

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...ble liquids, or why it should be a liquid rather than a gas (e.g. helium), or a a phase-change fluid ("heat-pipe" radiators have proven very effective). ...solution being suggested in the Show Stoppers article previously. Wasting or lavishly expending oxygen is something to be considered when there is an ox

...unches," said our Group Leader. "Dr. von Braun will not stand for failures or mistakes," he added.

...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

...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

...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

...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

...e missions. For the Lunokhod sites, the data should be available from RKA (or secondary sources), based on soil samples returned robotically. --[[User:An ...number of pieces arranged as a surface, energy "rays" which point towards or are emitted into the surface are absorbed. - [[User:Jarogers2001|Jarogers20

...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

...result in a flywheel with 5.02 * 10⁶ watt seconds per kilogram or 1400 watt hours per kilogram. This would not be the kind of flywheel that

...ises. Also, there is no guarantee that the individual person, corporation or nation that invests in lunar development will reap the profit. There is no ...unar development worthy of itself whether they can live to taste the fruit or not.--[[User:Farred|Farred]] 15:29, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

...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

...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

...doors portion of that industry will be robotic, reomotely controlled, and/or automatic machinery. - [[User:Farred|Farred]] 06:45, 10 May 2012 (UTC) ...expensive at $5,000 per pound for food or water lifted to low Earth orbit or $80,000 per pound to land it on Luna. Only when there is sufficient infras

...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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...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.

...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

...to counter threatening asteroids, arrays to heat a planet with solar power or shield one from the heat of the sun. They will also transfer money from th

...in one Earth gravity will break under the load if it is eighty kilometers or more in length. Since the orbital ring is specified as being at ninety mil

...insolation on the moon where it exists in a vacuum. At a depth of a foot or more in fine particles there is no great variation in temperature from day ...lly in the atmosphere would make up about 6.6% of the atmosphere remaining or about 22% by volume. Would people be able to fly a reentry vehicle to the

...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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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

...most covering the radiator. If micrometeoroids strike it at any time day or night, it could start to leak expensive coolant. If it is exposed to sunli

...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.

...there is no single correct form, but rather different forms which are more or less appropriate in different circumstances." from Wikipedia article on IU ...frain from changing the name in other articles. Adding (IUPAC: aluminium) or something like that is ok, but aluminum should be left in most places until

...ysis of molten lavas... We haven't even talked yet about casting aluminum or other metals...--[[User:Jotagiraldez|Jotagiraldez]] 01:24, 8 November 2010

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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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...be sufficiently strong / flexible to survive this shaking without buckling or leaking atmosphere, and internal furnishings/equipment would need to be sec

...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.

...ogen (see [[Lunar_Carbon_Production#Methane_Reduction|previous section]]), or used for the production of other hydrocarbons.

...from getting these amazing people together over a Saturday morning coffee or working session. We want members to rest assured that their ideas can make

...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

...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

...seems that most Mars colony enthusiasts think too small. The six billion or so Martians that could live on a terraformed Mars are insignificant compare ...Mars would be. Space habitats might be only 100,000 times more efficient or 1,000,000 times more efficient. The calculations could not be very precise

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...e structure being made is not for the purpose of containing oxygen, water, or water vapor.

...pics, or as naysaying, or as something that will be worked out "elsewhere" or "some other time." That is pure handwaving. ...sked. We can discuss finance of a moon settlement anywhere. Here is fine or we could start a discussion at the [[Category talk:Finance]] page. To star

...me added imported zirconia, and silica for windows and use aluminum sheets or foils for reflectors. Very high temps. (2100-2300C) are involved. There's ...rding to [http://www.permanent.com/lunar-geology-minerals.html PERMANENT] or 9.2 to 5.5 percent aluminum. So, for abrasives corundum ought to have a si

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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

Engineering details might seem dull or trivial, but they can make or break us. There won't be any ISRU and

...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.

...ion 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. If you are interested in moon c

At what or at whom should we cast basalt? - [[User:Farred|Farred]] 20:51, 7 May 2012 (

Corundum doped with iron or titanium with produces blue sapphires than can be used in lasers and optics

...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.

...be an article called [[Lunar Medicine]] and a Category called [[Medicine]] or [[Space Medicine]]. ...ding in the article. Do you think it is satisfactory as I have changed it or should it be improved? Sometimes I fail to see what is unclear in what I h

...it be cheaper to produce such or such... It would cost to people on Earth or whoever is monitoring, adjusting, implementing, maintaining the remote cont ...ended to make a profit. It seems to me that considering settling the moon or Mars without first determining how a profit would be made is taking things

...Whether it could still work with a rocket fuel pump and some aluminium and/or Magnesium dissolved into the NaK to make a better specific impulse rocket f

...a glance who they are, what they stand for, or what they'd like to be. ...Or something completely different.

...ephilim or the watchers and these were beings that came down from heaven ( or outer space! ) to live forever among us.The bible does not really give us a

...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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...ion shielding if the regolith covering referred to in the text is 5 meters or more thick. The thickness is specified as 7 meters, so it should be enough

...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.

...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

...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.

...to post here, that person would no doubt give a better account of himself or herself. Anyone who would like to make things fair and post an anti-moon-c

...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

...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

...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

...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 ...n to control available the task, and more than one radio control frequency or laser control frequency.[[File:MMSEV variation.jpg|thumb|600x600px|Although

...ers would no longer be assured of getting the raw materials for production or spare parts for broken machines. Central factories could loose the ability

...is difficulty in working the editing controls, I can answer questions here or on my talk page. - [[User:Farred|Farred]] 13:22, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

...d would be open to detection from space without the interference of clouds or lightning. Pressure vessels would be visible because of the unnatural shap

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...wo weeks cold with no sunshine deserve a special dedicated article, when I or anyone else gets around to it. My contribution would be in the line of con ...rent difficulty of getting appropriation of money for the plan as a whole, or just the start of the plan which can be sold as exploration. - [[User:Farr

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...any level of centripetal force desired, people living on the Earth's moon or Mars would be stuck with the local ambient gravity. However, it is just as ...ing resistance if the shells were carried one on the other by steel wheels or rubber wheels. Shells supported by magnetic levitation should work as well

...mixture is 22% sodium and 78% potassium. It melts at 9.4 degrees Farenheit or -12.6 degrees Celsius. So it is certainly not a difficult mixture to keep a

...one at the L1 point. The atmosphere of Venus would condense out in a year or so of torrential rains and eventually freeze solid. The structure of the r

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...e similar rights of observation of any Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Indian, or European bases. It would be best if we could cooperate on industry to the ...boiling hot dirt during the day is that there is no heat transfer by wind (or any sort of convection) from one spot to another on the moon. If radiant h

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...s data is all inferred from orbital data and modeling, as we have not seen or collected any mega-regolith samples (1, pg. 286). We have very little data ...bles, and boulders (≥1 cm) - These are typically individual rock fragments or breccias (rock fragments fused together).

...environment (human selenography). The third sub-discipline, environmental (or integrated) geography, is concerned with the interaction between the enviro * Earth sciences (or Lunar sciences in this case)

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...the building of SBSP should be a package deal. One or the other by itself or half-way measures do not make much sense. ...art with electric acceleration of a movable launching pad for the first 4% or so of orbital velocity. The moving start of the rocket prevents the rocket

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