At 10:21 PM 12/4/2006, BlazeEagle wrote:
After getting settled into this Moon colony[say a few years], they
could build a manned deep space ship and avoid having to expend more
energy for launching from Earth. Does that make any logical sense or
is my brain bumfuzzled?
They'd have to ship all the materials to build the ship up from
Earth, though, so that doesn't really help them unless the materials
and facilities to process them are all on the moon. It'd be easier to
build the thing in Earth orbit.
Wouldn't a Moon Colony be a more permanent then the Space Station?
An automated supply "truck" could transport supplies to the Moon
Colony. Is it possible to connect a Space elevator between the Earth
and Moon or, would the Earth's rotation rip the elevator's cable loose?
No, the Earth's movement would make that difficult, I think. Better
to do an elevator to a satellite in geosynchronous orbit.
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