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For a serious answer: it's a lot cheaper to launch rockets from there, and we're running out of stuff to do in the region immediately surrounding Earth.
by kulahan 1y ago
For a serious answer: it's a lot cheaper to launch rockets from there, and we're running out of stuff to do in the region immediately surrounding Earth.
- henryfjordan 1y agoIs it? You have a build a whole fuel refinery on the Moon before it's worth even thinking about. And even then, you have to get whatever you want to launch to the moon in the first place...
- kulahan 1y agoBuilding the fuel refinery is a high upfront cost which will quickly disappear. The delta-V required to exit Earth's surface is nearly an order of magnitude higher than what's required to exit the Moon's surface, and the moon is full of fuel.