Sentences with phrase «using lunar resources»

«They found moondust in every nook and cranny,» says William Larson of the Kennedy Space Center, a lead scientist and program manager in NASA's efforts to develop techniques for using lunar resources.

But for purposes of using water for making rocket fuel, the moon is very rich in water - it has more water than we could optimistic use within a century or two of massively using this lunar resource.

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He projects that only 12 tons of initial assets on the Moon could build themselves out into 150 tons of equipment (close to the amount that has been deemed necessary for a lunar colony) using local resources.

According to Keck, NASA would use an ion - propelled rocket to lasso a resource - rich asteroid about 7 metres wide and tow it into lunar orbit.

A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in future lunar exploration.