Great post. Though current stated costs to the moon are like $1.2M/kg via Astrobotic and that's a bit speculative as they haven't landed. Fingers crossed SpaceX

Great post. Though current stated costs to the moon are like $1.2M/kg via Astrobotic and that's a bit speculative as they haven't landed. Fingers crossed SpaceX gets Starship online and pulls that number down! If you're interested in reading about proposals to use the Moon for manufacturing, here's a fun blog post on potential use of lunar resources for manufacturing: https://denniswingo.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/lunar-metals-and-materials-research-the-keys-to-lunar-industrialization/ https://denniswingo.wordpress.com/2018/08/20/lunar-metals-an... Lots of interesting proposals and people to follow on Twitter too for both lunar and astroid ISRU (in situ resource utilization): https://twitter.com/drphiltill https://twitter.com/drphiltill https://twitter.com/george_sowers https://twitter.com/george_sowers https://twitter.com/joelsercel https://twitter.com/joelsercel https://twitter.com/wingod https://twitter.com/wingod