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Dec 1992
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992ntlr.workr..47s&link_type=abstract
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Joint Workshop on New Technologies for Lunar Resource Assessment p 47-48 (SEE N93-17233 05-91)
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Hydrogen Production, Lunar Bases, Lunar Resources, Lunar Surface, Oxygen Production, Regolith, Construction, Life Support Systems, Lunar Composition, Mission Planning, Propellants, Shielding
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Use of the indigenous resources of space to support long-term human presence is an essential element of the settlement of other planetary bodies. We are in a very early stage of understanding exactly how and under what circumstances space resources will become important. The materials and processes to recover them that we now think are critical may not ultimately be the raison d'etre for a resource utilization program. However, the need for strategic thinking proceeds in parallel with efforts to implement such plans and it is not too soon to begin thinking how we could and should use the abundant resources of materials and energy available from the Moon. The following commodities from the Moon are discussed: (1) bulk regolith, for shielding and construction on the lunar surface (ultimately for export to human-tended stations in Earth-Moon space), and (2) oxygen and hydrogen, for propellant and life support.
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