Using space resources
Abstract
The topics covered include the following: reducing the cost of space exploration; the high cost of shipping; lunar raw materials; some useful space products; energy from the moon; ceramic, glass, and concrete construction materials; mars atmosphere resources; relationship to the Space Exploration Initiative (SEI); an evolutionary approach to using space resources; technology development; and oxygen and metal coproduction.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- October 1991
- Bibcode:
- 1991STIN...9231781S
- Keywords:
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- Extraterrestrial Resources;
- Mars (Planet);
- Materials Recovery;
- Metals;
- Moon;
- Space Exploration;
- Ceramics;
- Concretes;
- Construction Materials;
- Cost Reduction;
- Glass;
- Lunar Rocks;
- Lunar Soil;
- Mars Atmosphere;
- Oxygen Production;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration