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To: OHelix
I imagine the greatest value of a moon base would be as a launch platform for deeper space missions.

How would that be an advantage? (Keeping in mind that everything you put on the moon would have to be shipped up from earth anyway, and then decellerated to land on the moon without making a new crater, and then have to be boosted out of the lunar gravity well to get going again)

91 posted on 01/26/2012 9:07:10 AM PST by from occupied ga (your own government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga
"How would that be an advantage? (Keeping in mind that everything you put on the moon would have to be shipped up from earth anyway, and then decellerated to land on the moon without making a new crater, and then have to be boosted out of the lunar gravity well to get going again)"

I imagine it would be an advantage for larger, heavier objects to be assembled from components on the moon and then launched from 1/6th the earth's gravity, and use the earth's gravity to slingshot it into the direction we wanted it to go.

112 posted on 01/26/2012 9:30:37 AM PST by OHelix
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