Nitrogen

Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Nitrogen

# 3099 byaglobus@... on July 11, 2002, 4:31 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03

Not that I know of, but that's to be expected. It's going to be a long
haul.

On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 01:18 AM, spider_boris wrote:

> Al, you mentioned before that NASA was looking at making tetrahedral
> Nitrogen as rocket fuel. Any progress on that front?
>

The materials in one asteroid (the largest ) are sufficient to make
orbital space colonies with ~500 times the surface area of the Earth in
usable real estate. See http://lifesci3.arc.nasa.gov/SpaceSettlement/
for details.

Al Globus
CSC at NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.nas.nasa.gov/~globus/home.html