Asteroid Mining

From: spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:spacesettlers@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Dan Wylie-Sears

> Asteroidal resources in HEO certainly do make it easier
> to set up a moon base. But don't they equally make it
> easier to go after more NEOs? And if it was easier to
> go after NEOs first, why wouldn't it stay that way until
> the targets of easy opportunity are depleted or until the
> sheer amount of mass demanded exceeds what's available in
> low-delta-vee orbits with convenient lauch windows?

As I said before, perhaps for no other reason than that time is money.
The moon will always have the advantage of short transit times for raw
material delivery. This will be an advantage (at least for markets
within cislunar space), even if the moon can't offer up a single
resource which isn't also available in many asteroids.

Regards,

Mike Combs