Moon Express Barney Pell
<p>Sep 18, 2011 01:27 PM
 
freq cites DENNIS WINGO and his book  Moonrush (on exploiting moon's mineral resources:
 
water:  > billion tones of water   to make hydrazine
2)  platinum, palladium, osmium, and gold
 
(from   asteroid impacts:   they are bound to iron... so just use a magnet to pick up dust and then
put into a furnace to extract metals)
 
3) rare earths:  Lithium, gallium, etc
4) helium 3   as a fuel for fusion
5)  silicon 28
6) aluminum
 
 
very light robotic lander... see video from Marshall (NASA team)
their design is even lighter.   they claim they'll land in 2013.
 
Shackleton Energy Company video  (from Stone Aerospace)
 
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