The interest in space resources, though, persists, although with a different destination in mind: the Moon. The reinvigoration of lunar exploration through NASA’s Artemis program, as well as the space programs of China and other nations, has brought new attention to lunar resources, notably water ice at the poles that could sustain future lunar bases and fuel—literally—exploration of the Moon and beyond.
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Apis™ is a breakthrough mission and flight system architecture designed to revolutionize NASA’s human exploration of deep space and to enable massive space industrialization and human settlement.
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Elon himself pointed out that the Boring Company tunnel machine will be extremely useful in future SpaceX Mars colony and SpaceX moon base.
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In special reports, this week’s files cover: Tic Tok Video, Mars Mining, Executive Order to Support Moon Mining, Tiny Asteroid Buzzes by Earth – the Closest Flyby on Record, One Party Pledges Allegiance of our Nation without God, Strange Craft, Mt Shasta Conference, and C-60.
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As we know, Japan successfully made some pretty cool space history this week. The small country sent a spacecraft to the surface of asteroid Ryugu, where it collected some samples before jumping off again. JAXA has now released some images from the mission that show the historic event.
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The Colorado School of Mines has developed a system architecture for a lunar permanently shadowed region (PSR) mining operation to extract and process water ice into liquid oxygen/liquid hydrogen propellant. The availability of space-sourced propellants dramatically lowers the cost of space transportation beyond low Earth orbit, enabling the development of a robust commercial economy in cislunar space. A key component
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Space resources are not just a potential source of profit for space companies, but essential to survival for settlements beyond Earth. (credit: Anna Nesterova/Alliance for Space Development) Comments (22) Space mining is back on the table. Yes, mining. Putting bucket-wheel excavators on the Moon and bringing back ores with rocket-propelled haulers and thousands of space-suited truckers, miners, and other people
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“Space is a warfighting domain. . . . It is not enough to have an American presence in space; we must have American dominance in space.”- U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence, 2018 1 In the spring of 1493, the King and Queen of Spain sent an envoy to the Pope […] moderndiplomacy.eu See more about this here: The Artemis Accords: Repeating
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University of Central Florida planetary scientist Phillip Metzger and his team at the Florida Space Institute have received a $125,000 NASA grant to develop a cost-effective and logistically feasible way to mine minerals on the moon. Metzger says the method could change the future of space travel…
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Space resources are not just a potential source of profit for space companies, but essential to survival for settlements beyond Earth. Space mining is back on the table. Yes, mining. Putting bucket-wheel excavators on the Moon and bringing back ores with rocket-propelled haulers and thousands of space-suited truckers, miners, and other people living and working in space.
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