Bigelow Aerospace & NASA Consider Moon Base

The most important requirement for life is water. I think future space
missions should focus on this, whether we search for water on the Moon, the
asteroids or on Mars. So far we know that there was plenty of water on Mars
- once upon a time - (interesting, but that is not what we are looking for).

Selvaraj

A single asteroid could offer up billions or even tens of billions of
dollars (depending on size and composition) in mineral wealth even if it
cost a billion or two to mine. Thats not even factoring the water, which
itself becomes a precious commodity in the decidedly dry climate of space.
As such, initial exploration will focus on water-rich asteroids, as
Planetary Resources appears to view its goal of establishing a means to
harvest and supply water in space to be of equal importance to extracting
precious metals.
http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2012-04/why-mining-asteroid-water-and-metals-isnt-quite-crazy-it-sounds

On 24 April 2013 12:33, Victor Smith wrote: