NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Using the Falcon Heavy

Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by rtkwe on Saturday February 20, 2021 @08:51PM (#26210083)

That's a massively complicated endeavor and would require a lot of knowledge we don't have at the moment principally zero G mining and remote robotic assembly (time lags will mean it'll have to be very automated).

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by Aeolun on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:35PM (#26210318)

That sounds like experience we’ll never get if we do not even make the attempt.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by rtkwe on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:38PM (#26210332)

Eventually, it's not the first step you take though.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by mLuby on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:11PM (#26210480)

Forget railguns; an automated burger flipper could launch chunks of rock at escape velocity.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by rtkwe on Sunday February 21, 2021 @10:49AM (#26214318)

The faster you can accelerate them the more dV you get out of each chunk so you want to get them moving as fast as possible. If you're barely tossing them off the asteroid you might need to throw away a majority of the asteroid's mass to move it into Earth's orbit.

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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin... by gpm on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:24PM (#26210271)

And reliable railguns.

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