“Moon is the logical proving ground for subsequent industrial developments and settlements elsewhere. Only 2-3 flight days away, it allows us to develop at our very doorstep the experience we need to operate successfully and cost-effectively in more distant regions. No other celestial body and no orbiting space station can more effectively permit development of the habitats, material extraction and processing methods, and in essence, all the science, technology and sociology required for a responsible approach to extraterrestrial operations.”
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| Krafft Ehricke with Elizabeth Miller
Lunar Industrialization & Settlement:
Birth of Polyglobal Civilization, 1984
Paper for Lunar & Planetary Institute
W.W. Mendell, Editor | |
