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A Return to Asteroid Mining, and Digging Into Space Ethics with Joel Sercel

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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How to Build a Tower on the Moon

Using today's materials, not anything exotic, we've calculated that you can actually make a package that you could land on the moon. The package lands on the moon as a self-contained unit and it erects a tower using a type of structure called a tencegrity structure. This solves a critical problem in terms of long duration, lunar exploration. How to power things on the moon? We're studying that under NIAC funding in collaboration with our friends at Blue Origin. Art calculations suggest the single new Glen launch can put up what we call a sunflower. Sunflowers an emigrated tower with a reflector on the top with a heliostat, causes the reflect

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