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Mining In Space
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On December 10, 1986 the Greater New York Section of the American
Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the engineering
section of the New York Academy of Sciences jointly presented a program on
mining the planets. Speakers were Greg Maryniak of the Space Studies
Institute (SSI) and ....
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...., are readily
available solar power and potential surface mines on the Moon and later
other celestial bodies as well.
The Moon, Maryniak stated, contains many useful materials. Moreover, it
is twenty-two times easier to accelerate a payload to lunar escape
velocity than it is to accelerate the identical mass out of the EarthUs
gravity well. As a practical matter the advantage in terms of the energy
required is even greater because of the absence of a lunar atmosphere.
Among other things this p.... |
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