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European Lunar Program Alternatives

Posted in Architecture, Colonization, Depot, ESA, ISRU, Lunar, tagged , on Tuesday 2008.03.11 | No Comments »

ESA’s Architecture for Exploration Study (AES) is overviewed in Lunar Base Quarterly 1/2008 (EDIT: to be clear, the Quarterly was released in January):
Lots of Ariane 5, Angara and Soyuz launches with space docking, a space station in Earth-Lunar L1 and many new crewed and non-crewed craft and capabilities.
They had a red team / blue team [...]

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A 3D Glue Gun Does Not Self-Replication Make

Posted in Colonization, ISRU, Science, tagged , , , on Monday 2008.01.07 | No Comments »

I’ve been wondering at this ever since the meme has been circulating. People make a printer that shoots glue, layer upon layer and thus it can print 3d objects.
But saying such 3d printers will replace factories and manufacturing is very clearly wrong. Take a look at almost anything you’re using or wearing right now. It’s [...]

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