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Mining the moon for rocket fuel to get us to Mars

  • Written by Gary Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles
imageBetween the Earth and the moon: An artist's rendering of a refueling depot for deep-space exploration.Sung Wha Kang (RISD), CC BY-ND

Forty-five years have passed since humans last set foot on an extraterrestrial body. Now, the moon is back at the center of efforts not only to explore space, but to create a permanent, independent space-faring...

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