By-Pass the Moon? Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: By-Pass the Moon?
# 10491 byjoe@... on March 4, 2008, 4:55 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
On Mar 4, 2008, at 9:45 AM, Combs, Mike wrote:
> But whichever comes first, I think the other will subsequently become
> much easier. Availability of lunar resources in HEO (even if nothing
> beyond oxygen and shielding) would vastly bring down the costs of a
> NEO
> expedition. And I think availability of asteroidal resources in HEO
> would even make getting back to the moon much easier.
>
All good points.
- Joe