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"In my mind I have gone all over the universe, which may make it less important for me to make piddling little trips... I did enjoy seeing Stonehenge. It looked exactly the way I thought it would look."
- Isaac Asimov
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| Water From Lunar Gypsum | ||
| Extracting water (and therefore oxygen, by electrolysis) from apparently dry lunar material. |
Assuming you can find gypsum on the moon, of course.
| “Gypsum fed into the furnaces is quickly ejected as de-hydrated CaSO4, the water collected, and taken to the electrolysis apparatus.” |
| Technovelgy from The Moon is Hell,
by John W. Campbell. Published by Fantasy Press in 1950 Additional resources -
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Thanks to Fred Kiesche for pointing this out.
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