Books on Lunar exploitation

[Rhyshaelkan]

Here (http://www.outofthecradle.net/archives/2008/03/home-on-the-moon-welcome-to-moonbase/) are a couple of books that discuss the whys and wherefores for returning to and colonizing Luna. I will let the page speak for itself. The blurbs about the books are huge and worth reading over.

I read Welcome To Moonbase by Ben Bova back when I was 13. I was a spacer ever since. Wanting mankind to bring the future. Sadly we are barely any closer now than we were then.

[Boxy]

Well, I reckon that we're at least a couple hundred satellites closer. That's got to be something.

Interesting. Thanks for the info.

[Bluesteel]

"Mining the Sky - Untold Riches from the Comets and Planets" by John S. Lewis is an excellent book, with a good section on exploiting the resources of the Moon, along with it's main focus on Asteroids and Mars. It is a little dated now (pub Addison Wesley 1996) , but the principles are solid. It certainly switched me on to the possibilities over a decade ago.

JUlian

[Rhyshaelkan]

I followed a search of the book to other links such as this one (http://www.matter-antimatter.com/asteroid_3554_amun.htm).

In addition Wikipedia said that those estimates were 1996. Since then the prices of the metals have fluctuated greatly. The value of Amun could be upwards of $30 trillion. And that is the value of the resources alone. Let alone selling or donating chunks to universities for study.

[Rhyshaelkan]

Short study of a Lunar Mining Machine. http://www.sciforums.com/Lunar-Mining-Machine-t-1198.html

[Alexander Declama]

Short study of a Lunar Mining Machine. http://www.sciforums.com/Lunar-Mining-Machine-t-1198.html


I'm going to try this next semester.

[Rhyshaelkan]

I really hope it works. Anyone with a Lunar mining goal would beat a path to your door to buy the plans to a working machine. Or at least I know I would. :P

[Sabion]

Has there been any similar discussions about this machine or others like it that you have come across on the web? I think this a great engineering challenge for a phd thesis let alone a viable profit making machine.