David Beaty, associate Chief Scientist for NASA's Mars programme, has some sobering advice for would-be lunar colonists. While he says that any future Moon settlement will have to "live off the land" to be a success, he points out that the raw materials aren't exactly lying on the surface waiting to be scooped up and some, like water ice, might not exist at all.
Good points, but I still say that lunar mining isn't going to go much of anywhere so long as the miners have to lumber around in one of these.
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