Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin...
by ggm on Saturday February 20, 2021 @09:50PM
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Yes. I probably overstated my case. How quickly would that deliver a benefit?
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Re:NASA Has Decided to Start Building the Lunar Gateway Usin...
by simonh on Sunday February 21, 2021 @04:50AM
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It could take years for each mission, but of course at industrial scale you could have a continuous delivery queue and processing each asteroid could provide months or years worth of material. Think of each asteroid as a new mine being opened up. These initial missions are just proof of concept to test out techniques. You have to start somewhere.