So what ARE habitats good for anyway?

From: Ian Woollard [mailto:ian.woollard@...]

There is a NASA project underway with a landing in about 5 years
to investigate lunar ice. The project documentation says that they
expect upto 58% reduction in costs for their space missions
and they have rough plans for exploiting the ice.

That's very interesting, given that Jim Benson, who's very much in favor of
extracting water from NEOs, seems to feel that the difficulties of using
lunar ice are insuperable. I wonder about his pessimism here, when NASA
seems to be cautiously optimistic, at the very least.

Regards,
Mike Combs

From:
Ian Woollard [mailto:ian.woollard@...]
There is a NASA project underway with a landing in about 5 years
to investigate lunar ice. The project documentation says that they
expect upto 58% reduction in costs for their space missions
and they have rough plans for exploiting the ice.

That's very interesting, given that Jim Benson, who's very much in favor of extracting water from NEOs, seems to feel that the difficulties of using lunar ice are insuperable. I wonder about his pessimism here, when NASA seems to be cautiously optimistic, at the very least.

Regards,
Mike Combs