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Mining Plans For The Moon

Extracting resources from the moon plays an important part in the US Congress- endorsed vision for space exploration.

The powdery lunar surface and the fact that the moon has only a sixth of the earth’s gravity “makes it ideal for cheap mining and mineral processing”.

The minerals present on the moon include anorthite, which is similar to the mineral bauxite, from which aluminium is produced on earth.  Read more

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This entry was posted on Friday, April 27th, 2007 at 9:12 am and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Mining Plans For The Moon”

  1. anne Says:
    May 12th, 2007 at 7:29 pm

    Started to watch “spaceship orion”. Impressive and amazing show, BUT, you are drowning out part of the dialog with the superimposed drumming, frantic “music” I turned it OFF.

    Listen to it, yourself.

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