lunar mining

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Haven't heard much from China's space program lately. Wonder what is going on there?

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Back once again, hopefully more to follow.

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Lava-tube housing for colonists? Yep.
http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Lava_tube_could_house_moon_colony_999.html

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Moon villages, exploring the concepts..

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Momentum_builds_for_creation_of_moon_villages_999.html

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Any Contributors Welcome. Topics are anything dealing with moon exploration and utilization of Lunar resources.

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Yet another treatise, of Moon colonization by Nasa.

http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/colonizing-the-moon/

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Rare-Earth Elements being vital to defense projects, and used in emerging new energy projects...May require moon mining in order to obtain uninterrupted supplies.
China has blocked exports to Japan of crucial rare earth elements, more in retaliation of territorial-disputes...than actual scarcity of the elements. (But they are called 'Rare' for a reason.)


http://sservi.nasa.gov/articles/is-mining-rare-minerals-on-the-moon-vital-to-national-security/

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Tripling lithium-battery capacity, with beach-sand?
...anything improving battery-tech, will be helpful in devices used in exploration...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140708153906.htm

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Russia to colonize the moon in 2030?
...perhaps,

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Russia_to_begin_Moon_colonization_in_2030_999.html

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Lunar-Juice, water in the rocks,

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Water_in_moon_rocks_provides_clues_and_questions_about_lunar_history_999.html

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I agree We should see results very soon My friend

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I have thought that for mining area's of the moon...your claim is limited only by your ability to get there and proceed to mine. There should be NO 'ownership' of lunar-acreage... I think that there should be some sort of 'Buffer-Zone' allowed around a mining-claim. This would be to prevent another party from interfering with a developed area in the process of utilizing resources, but perhaps these things should be worked out now.
Many have said lunar mining is 'Pie in the sky' or at the very least 10-20 or more years away. I doubt it will take that long.
...I'd say in 5 years or less.

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21st century Gold Rush, mining the Moon.

...Concentrations of Gold 100-times richer than any Earth-based mine..He3 and other scarce resources hard to obtain on Earth will spur development on extraction/mining tech.



http://metronews.ca/news/world/974825/mining-the-moon-the-21st-century-gold-rush/

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Resolve, to improve tech for 'in situ' utilization of resorces and materials. Research on lunar regolith materials continues.

http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/ground/resolverover.html

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Trending space-related news,

...Chinese lander made it to the moon, then had some issues.
The rover named 'Jade Rabbit' encountered mechanical difficulties that were as yet unresolved as the rover was to shutdown for the Lunar 'Night', that lasts 14-days. This friday or perhaps saturday may reveal if the rover survived the 2-week lunar darkness.

The rover was designed to roam the lunar surface for three months while surveying for natural resources and sending back data. Then it ran into problems as it was shutting down in preparation for the lunar night when the temperature drops to minus 180 degrees Celsius (minus 292 degrees Fahrenheit).

In the Rover's Last Words,...

"The sun has already set here and the temperature is falling very quickly. I've said a lot today, yet still feel like it's not enough," the rover said in its concluding paragraphs. "I'll tell everyone a secret. Actually, I'm not feeling especially sad. Just like any other hero, I've only encountered a little problem while on my own adventure."

"Good night, planet earth. Good night, humanity."

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New catalyist for Hydrogen-fuel production found by University of Wisconsin....Could cut costs of hydrogen fuel, completely eliminates the need for silver-alloys.

http://www.energy-daily.com/reports/New_catalyst_could_cut_cost_of_making_hydrogen_fuel_999.html

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Moon Base and Beyond, Author's have written about travel to the moon since late 1800's. In the latter-half of the prior century, it became fact. Since "Getting there is half the FUN!", researcher's are compiling methods of making "staying there" a reality. It is important to utilize what is already there, take ONLY just what you need, and as little of that as possible.
Margaret Morris has a book that details many of the steps to do just that,"MoonBase and beyond". Detailed information at the leading-edge of current science give clues to creating bases on the moon and other planets.

http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Moon_Base_and_Beyond_999.html

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LADEE-probe
LADEE L-14 Media Briefing A model of the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) spacecraft is seen in the foreground during a LADEE mission briefing at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, Aug, 22, 2013, in Washington. Data from NASA's LADEE mission will provide unprecedented information about the environment around the moon and give scientists a better understanding of other planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond. The LADEE mission is scheduled to launch at 11:27 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility on Wallops Island, Va.
At mission-end, the probe will be dropped out of Lunar-orbit and impact the Lunar surface, simulating a meteor-strike. Telescopes around the world will be focusing on this event.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/ladee/main/index.html

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Nasa's launching a MOON-probe on sept. 6th, from Wallop's Island, VA.

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/NASA_Prepares_for_First_Virginia_Coast_Launch_to_Moon_999.html

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Difficult to post, when ihub drops your posts.

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Super Nova explosion tommorrow, watch Live/Realtime as the Photons Arrive in our nieghborhood.
Downloadable APP available at Apple, for iPads.

http://events.slooh.com/

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Space-Race!
...The race to space started with Sputnik,...America picked up the "Gauntlet" and ran with it, leading to manned-missions to the moon.
Some would say the whole point of the exercize was to "Deflate" the USSR. (What really "deflated them, was runaway military-spending.)
..Now the former USSR is no longer a serious-contender...the race is over. (At least in the minds of many PPL.)
Wrong!...There are New Player's on the field. Whatever the stimulus was for the original endeavor, new reasons arise to continue. There are resources on the moon that we need. Someone will go to get them. If the effort is persued by only one nation, only that nation will reap the rewards. While our nation abandons government-sponsored spaceflight in the hope the private-sector will persue "profits-in-space"...The Chinese are investing billions in thier space program that already has specifyed the eventual goal is mining the moon.
The United States should continue what it started, we are not there yet.

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Top 6 reasons for mining the Moon's resources,

http://mining.about.com/od/InnovationTechnology/a/Top-6-Reasons-Why-Moon-Mining-Will-Happen.htm

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ISS, Live-feed.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/iss_ustream.html

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Yep, I have seen that.
...This morning the ISS is supposed to be visable for 6 minute transit in our area at 5:33am local. Weather is clear here, should be good viewing.
Currently listening/observing the ISS live-feed, as the station astronaut's are trying to overcome a problem in one of the instrument-racks. A recalcitent device is resisting insertion into the moudule's racking system...apparently there is interferance with the bolts holding it together. (The device)
...along way from a hardware store....

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Check this out

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We need the space programs for more than mere curiosity, our very survival may be at stake, as was recently eveidenced by the close-passage of an asteroid half the size of a football field. This object came VERY-close in astronomical distances, but easily clear of the planet Earth. The meteor that may originally been part of that asteroid at one time, did not miss, and caused considerable damage when it exploded in mid-air over Russia.

http://www.dave.co.nz/space/exploration/why.html

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Why explore space?...and the Moon?
Just to satisfy a few curious EggHeads?...Not at ALL! The science that is used to develop space tech can, and has, benifited everyone on the planet.
Spinoff's galore,
http://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2008/tech_benefits.html

[gail]

OMG, I JUST GOT IN AND SEE YOUR..

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post. you had all of us worried, not just me. yes, we knew you were going but you post your every move and didnt even say bye here, or on f/b. soooo, i worried.

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Did you forget I was going to Florida?
I've been really busy, very little of the time at my brother's house...and then either eating or sleeping.
Plus I have trouble seeing this keyboard...so I won't be on untill weekend after next.
See ya then, Al.

[gail]

B/T WHERE ARE YOU? WE ARE WORRIED ABOUT YOU.

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Build a Lunar base, with 3D-printing,

http://moonandback.com/2013/01/31/to-build-a-lunar-base-with-3d-printing/

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...I remember you saying that you did not think the moon was created from a earth-impact scenario, there may be more eveidence of this actually being the case.
I found the info intriguing, if not compelling..

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Proof_at_last_Moon_was_created_in_giant_smashup_999.html

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The European space agency is developing an unmanned-lander/prospector to investigate further into the possibility of lunar water-ice.
I believe the NASA-impacts have pretty-well established the presence of water, it will be good to get independant confirmation.

http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Astrium_presents_results_of_its_study_into_automatic_landing_near_the_Moons_south_pole_999.html

and,

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/European_mission_to_search_for_moon_water_999.html

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http://moonandback.com/2013/01/03/golden-spike-company-grumman-to-study-lunar-lander-design/ New design for a lunar lander //concept seems OK

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CELSS, sustainable food supply, co2 reduction, oxygen production experiment by Chinese and German scientists, shows promise. Later-stages may even provide for animal-husbandry to be included.

Deng Yibing, deputy director of the Beijing-based Chinese Astronaut Research and Training Center, said that the experiment focused on a dynamic balanced mechanism of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water between people and plants in a closed system.

According to Deng, a cabin of 300 cubic meters was established to provide sustainable supplies of air, water and food for two participants during the experiment.

Four kinds of vegetables were grown, taking in carbon dioxide and providing oxygen for the two people living in the cabin. They could also harvest fresh vegetables for meals, Deng said.

The experiment, the first of its kind in China, is extremely important for the long-term development of China's manned space program, Deng added.

The cabin, a controlled ecological life support system (CELSS) built in 2011, is a model of China's third generation of astronauts' life support systems, which is expected to be used in extraterrestrial bases on the Moon or Mars.

The introduction of a CELSS seeks to provide sustainable supplies of air, water and food for astronauts with the help of plants and algae, instead of relaying on stocks of such basics deposited on board at the outset of the mission.

Advance forms of CELSS also involve the breeding of animals for meat and using microbes to recycle wastes.

Scientists from Germany also participated in the experiments


http://www.moondaily.com/reports/Chinese_astronauts_may_grow_veg_on_Moon_999.html

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Moon-dust data from Apollo missions 14 and 15, now "restored" to modern digital format. The data has now been "gleaned" seperately from the "house-keeping" data that was present in the original transmitted-data. (The house-keeping data indicated the "health" of the instrument packages.)
The data was never archived before, and the last year and one-half was never studied.

http://www.space-travel.com/reports/Apollos_Lunar_Dust_Data_Being_Restored_999.html

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MOON DAILY
Russia designs manned lunar spacecraft
by Staff Writers
Moscow (UPI) Dec 26, 2012

Russian space company Energia has completed the technical design of a manned spacecraft whose flight tests would be initiated in 2017, company officials say.

"We have completed the technical design project taking into account the fact that the new spaceship is to fly to the moon, among other places," Energia President Vitaly Lopota said Wednesday.

"If we get normal financing, we will start flight tests of the spaceship in 2017," he said.

Energia was awarded the spaceship design contract in April 2009, RIA Novosti reported.

Federal space agency Roscosmos head Vladimir Popovkin has said the new spaceship is intended to fly not only to the International Space Station but also to the moon.

A number of configurations of the spacecraft have been developed depending on mission requirements and whether a mission is to a terrestrial or lunar orbit, Energia said.

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http://moonandback.com/2012/12/17/grail-lunar-impact-site-named-for-astronaut-sally-ride/

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video of barycenter behavior and new theory of solar activity.

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MOON DAILY
Chinese astronauts may grow veg on Moon
by Staff Writers
Beijing (XNA) Dec 04, 2012


The introduction of a CELSS seeks to provide sustainable supplies of air, water and food for astronauts with the help of plants and algae, instead of relaying on stocks of such basics deposited on board at the outset of the mission.

Chinese astronauts may get fresh vegetables and oxygen supplies by gardening in extraterrestrial bases in the future, an official said after a just-concluded lab experiment in Beijing.

Deng Yibing, deputy director of the Beijing-based Chinese Astronaut Research and Training Center, said that the experiment focused on a dynamic balanced mechanism of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and water between people and plants in a closed system.

According to Deng, a cabin of 300 cubic meters was established to provide sustainable supplies of air, water and food for two participants during the experiment.

Four kinds of vegetables were grown, taking in carbon dioxide and providing oxygen for the two people living in the cabin. They could also harvest fresh vegetables for meals, Deng said.

The experiment, the first of its kind in China, is extremely important for the long-term development of China's manned space program, Deng added.

The cabin, a controlled ecological life support system (CELSS) built in 2011, is a model of China's third generation of astronauts' life support systems, which is expected to be used in extraterrestrial bases on the Moon or Mars.

The introduction of a CELSS seeks to provide sustainable supplies of air, water and food for astronauts with the help of plants and algae, instead of relaying on stocks of such basics deposited on board at the outset of the mission.

Advance forms of CELSS also involve the breeding of animals for meat and using microbes to recycle wastes.

Scientists from Germany also participated in the experiments.

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I added you as assistant moderator, hope thats OK with you.
You have contributed many times to the board.

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Another link to image of the whole nearside face of the moon, zoomable.

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/wac_nearside

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Enlargeable Crater-Views, link to "Zoomify" views from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. Many have near-icredible resolution.

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse

[kismetkid]

i bookmarked that one for sure!

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Golden Spike, to lead the way for further moon-exploration?
Realbiz brought this to my attention.

http://goldenspikecompany.com/about-us/

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Upclose crater views, zoomable..

http://wms.lroc.asu.edu/lroc_browse/view/M175569775

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Vivid maps. Very cool.

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Simply amazing information Kid

[kismetkid]

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/12/grail-moon-probes-results/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Top+Stories%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

gravity mapping of the moon. a couple nice videos with the article