Think of capturing a Comet made of pure water ice and gently placing it on the moon in reservoirs or craters lined with some sort of plastic like a giant tub or filling up underground aquifers for wells to use later? It seems everything we work so hard to dig out of the Earth at great expense is available in its purest form just floating around our solar system until it collides or hits something. So then it does make sense to collect it, mine it and use it to serve our needs.

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In 2006 we will see new simplified approaches to the mining of the Lunar surface and designs of easy up systems which will be pre-fab units assembled by robotic self-assembly techniques. These mining units will be launched and landed on the moon and immediately start working, converting moon material in to gases, for space propulsion and separating out oxygen for humans to arrive. NASA will practice on Earth landing these systems in a remote place on Earth as a test, by parachuting the systems in and testing their ability to work autonomously with some telematic presence via satellite. Think on this in 2006.

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Burt Rutan’s SpaceShip One recently won the X-Prize for getting into space and so far the new venture to take tourists into space already has over 38,000 people signed up to go with deposits. The cost to be taken into space is only about $200,000 and many expect the waiting list to reach 50,000 by the end of the year?

The Space Port will be Northeast of Las Cruses, NM and will be on a 27-mile plot of land. It will be completed in 2009 and will house spaces ships costing about 150 million dollars. The State of New Mexico is also very excited about the project and will spend about 100 million to assist with local infrastructures to support the new space base. Billionaire Richard Branson will spend about 225 million dollars to build the spaceport.

The future of commercial space flight in nearly upon us and that means an entirely new industry, with potentially billions of dollars flowing thru it in the next decade. Not bad for the forward progression of mankind, not bad at all. Think on this in 2006.

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