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Bush administration to adopt Artemis Society plan for moon mission...
"Tom Merkle" wrote in message om... Actually I have no real factual basis for this. But when you look at the details, they're not too dissimilar. NASA uses as much publicity as possible to build support for its plans, much as the ASI Reference mission is designed to make its profits from the proceeds of proprietary video & lunar rocks. Got a link to the Artemis plan? Just as an interesting aside--I wonder what the current going rate for a couple grams of regolith is? NASA is sitting on a large inventory that it would be wise to dump while supplies are still low. If Bush's plans pan out, regolith cost will bottom out fairly soon. If memory serves it went for much more then $1,000 dollars per millionth of a gram when auctioned. 1000 kgs a year would IMO probably flood the market and you would probably be lucky to get $1,000 per gram. |
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Bush administration to adopt Artemis Society plan for moon mission...
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 12:09:58 GMT, "Dholmes"
wrote: "Tom Merkle" wrote in message . com... Actually I have no real factual basis for this. But when you look at the details, they're not too dissimilar. NASA uses as much publicity as possible to build support for its plans, much as the ASI Reference mission is designed to make its profits from the proceeds of proprietary video & lunar rocks. Got a link to the Artemis plan? http://www.asi.org/ Just as an interesting aside--I wonder what the current going rate for a couple grams of regolith is? NASA is sitting on a large inventory that it would be wise to dump while supplies are still low. If Bush's plans pan out, regolith cost will bottom out fairly soon. If memory serves it went for much more then $1,000 dollars per millionth of a gram when auctioned. 1000 kgs a year would IMO probably flood the market and you would probably be lucky to get $1,000 per gram. |
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