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Question
If a moon base were to be built, what would it use as a source of oxygen and water?
Initially, astronauts will take all their supplies from the Earth, as they do now. By recycling as much as possible they will use these supples efficiently, but it is still terribly expensive to supply a lunar base with consumables carried all the way from the Earth. That is why the search for ice near the lunar poles is so important. If we could mine local ice, that could supply all our requirements for water and oxygen. David Morrison
NAI Senior Scientist
October 22, 2007
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