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...alaxy Explorers]], which takes place in a future [[Helium|<sup>3</sup>He]] mining colony. The game is meant to be fun, educational, and to increase interest
...are warned to check everything and to be on the look out for "substandard equipment". Yeah, right.''
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This list is based on the mining settlement described in [[Harrison Schmitt]]'s book, "Return to the Moon".
*They are the big mining machines, called Sandworms
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===Mining:===
The huge [[mining rovers]], the proposed [[sandworms]], are unlikely to tolerate much slope a
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==Asteroid mining==
[https://www.asteroidanalytics.com/asteroid-mining-is-not-dead Asteroid mining is (not) dead]
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<font size=5> Sandworms, Humungous Ugly Lunar Mining Machines </font>
This design note develops ideas for the design of a lunar Helium-3 mining machine as described in [[Harrison Schmitt]]'s (Apollo-17) book, ''Return t
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...onh Wiley & 1999 pg.6</ref> However, if a [[Progress in Remotely Operated Equipment|robot lunar colony]] is first established and used to put in place the indu
<ref>Lewis, John S. Mining the Sky, Untold Riches from Comets and planets. ISBN 0-201-47959-1</ref>]
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...lements. There are many other possibilities. This one assumes that large mining machines, called sandworms, have been used to dig trenches while processing
...e first time. Each building had one airlock and was surrounded by surface equipment like solar and thermal panels.
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...2] </ref> In this way a self replicating industrial infrastructure, with mining, chemical processing and manufacturing could fit into a moving van. Each m
...seem to think that fully self maintaining and self reproducing industrial equipment could be sent to Luna with (perhaps) a half dozen Ares V launches. These l
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...ngthy training. Others will go to the Moon with specific intentions, like mining or settlement.
...is of the possible types of people it will take to run a full scale lunar mining settlement such as the one described by [[Harrison Schmitt]] in ''Return to
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It is quite possible that once the research work is well advanced and lunar mining becomes a viable commercial venture, we may see lunar settlements under fla
...or to no religion, will help insure diversity in the lunar population. The mining operations needs to be a 24 hour / 365 day operation. Different people obse
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...ed equipment that monitor the sun can provide more advanced warnings. All equipment on the lunar surface must be designed to withstand these events.
...REEP region is not acceptable for any long-term human settlement or manned mining operation.
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...lushing it. Personnel will have access to a wide variety of chemicals and equipment to do their jobs. Possession of an odd item that is inconvenient to dispos
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Mining these polar deposits poses the problem of designing equipment capable of operating in extremely cold temperatures. In addition, the exact
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...lization of outer space. The fastest and easiest way to do it starts with mining the moon.
...Breathing Apparatus|SCIBA]] suit. Work with molten titanium and repair of equipment for vacuum use that would be damaged by exposure to oxygen or moisture is b
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A lunar volatiles harvester will be the key piece of industrial equipment for the first lunar settlement.
...ti.neep.wisc.edu/pdf/wcsar9311-2.pdf I.N. Sviatoslavsky, "The Challenge of Mining He-3 on the Lunar Surface: How All the Parts Fit Together", University of W
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...t be suitable for large solar powered industrial actives such as volatiles mining and be suitable for industrial scale operations (see [[Sandworms]]). These
...les in these locations. If these deposits can be verified by [[LRO]] then mining them will be a major source of volatiles for all future space activates. T
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Time on amateur astronomy equipment on the Moon. Small robot telescope on Moon, time rented over internet.
...ining equipment is required and is completely different from regular lunar mining operations.
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...one of the most important parts of a life support system. Also designing equipment, such as your return vehicle, to withstand high temperatures for long perio
Very little equipment can stand being soaked at these high temperatures for long. Normal space s
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==Mining the building materials==
...arpe, Bonnie Cooper, Madhu Thangavelu </ref> described remotely controlled equipment doing industrial tasks before astronauts arrive on the moon before I did an
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