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The scoop: one to one of the reasons for the creation of a base of the Moon is mine the Moon for its abundance of natural resources, but is this realistic? In some ways, Yes, but there are a lot of politics and economics to Wade first.

Planetary geologists speculate that polar craters of the Moon billions of tons of hydrogen, perhaps even in the form of water ice held a can. Intriguing test returned by the Lunar Prospector and Clementine probes in the 1990s seemed to support this idea.

The last series of lunar missions, including Chandrayaan-1 and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, can fix it. Then, prospecting, can determine the quantity, quality and accessibility of hydrogen.

Discover that the rich concentrations of hydrogen on the moon would open up a universe of opportunities – literally. Instead of rocket fuel can produce and supplies are now an average of $ 10,000 per kilogram of Derby on the Moon cost a lot more cheaper. For the first time, really close access to space. Finally, people could start new companies, including the space tourism, cleaning of debris in space, resupply of satellite and interplanetary travel.

DOLLARS AND SENSE

Lunar prospecting costs a lot of money – maybe $ 20 million more than a decade. Rover would have to fall in the polar craters taste of deposits and the evidence for ice, and then change to other places to form a total wildcatters of the map, as each day in the field of oil.

At the moment it seems the Bill not every country. But when Governments fail to act on a very important occasion, the private sector can and must act.

Two years ago, forms I and a group of like-minded entrepreneurs, explorers and space Expeditionary system administrators and engineers the co energy of Shackleton in del Valle, Texas, for lunar exploration.

We have significant reserves of ice, we have a network of petrol stations in orbit around the Earth and the moon to the process and fuel and consumables replenishment of fuel? As a modern motorway petrol stations, which they can to refuel spacecraft of all manner of heavenly stations and on important nodes; an obvious place would be close to the international space station.

REDUCTION OF THE TAX BURDEN

These stations would radically change the way almost every space system is designed. You do not have all its fuel and water in a job with you. entirely new classes of spacecraft would be possible, those who are only in and out of low Earth orbit, as vehicles for orbital transfer of satellite and repair work.

Currently his delivery systems designed to resist the effects of punishment of rapid atmospheric drag, pressure, vibration and heating which is on the way to space. Protection of the ecological carrying capacity and the rocket would strongly added to costs. But a vehicle from the start is designed to work only in the space to say, between the orbit of the Earth and the Moon-not linked to the same rules for the design.

Can we the problem more than space debris. There would be much fuel for maneuvering satellites and other spacecraft to avoid waste, and it can also deploy on outdated materials for cleaning vehicles. Within a decade or two, it would be the beginning of a new era of space exploration, space tourism and space companies come quickly.

FORMULA FOR FUEL

So, where exactly is the raw, and how we collect?

More likely to search for in the regolith-material of the surface-in the lower part of the Lunar craters, such as the crater Shackleton at the South Pole of the moon. The Interior of the crater cold can act as a trap to catch of Volatiles such as water, hydrogen, believe that scientists may have been thrown by comets and asteroids collided with the moon.

In the 1990s, felt the unexpectedly high amounts of spacecraft Lunar Prospector of hydrogen in the polar regions, which in the presence of water ice that can. NASA has Shackleton crater is considered to be the site for the first moon post under its programme for constellation, which astronauts coming back on the Moon in 2020.

Assuming that ice exists and can be won, call our plan for the establishment of a processing of fuel on the lunar surface.

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