Entering Space: Creating A Spacefaring Civilization - The Moon

The Moon

The chapter on the Moon is mostly spent discussing nuclear fusion. Zubrin explains that Helium-3 deposited on the moon by the solar wind could be an excellent fuel for nuclear fusion. Much of this chapter is spent discussing chemistry that would be vital to a moon base.

See also: Colonization of the Moon

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Famous quotes containing the word moon:

    “I’ve tried the new moon tilted in the air
    Above a hazy tree-and-farmhouse cluster
    As you might try a jewel in your hair.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “It becomes the moralist, too, to inquire what man might do to improve and beautify the system; what to make the stars shine more brightly, the sun more cheery and joyous, the moon more placid and content.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)