Launching for dollars: Applied Space Resources will use investors to finance a lunar sample return mission

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Applied Space Research is planning to launch the first commercial lunar sample mission, using private funds to develop a robotic lunar mission that will collect lunar rock samples for sale to researchers. Observers believe that this is precisely what is needed to make space exploration continue, allow private participation in space exploration.

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Lunar tourism

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A vacation on the Moon would be more exciting for an adult than the Disneyland for a child. The dream of tour on Moon can become possible and the first stage on the way to lunar tourism is the development of low cost access to low Earth orbit, which was the broken promise of the Space Shuttle.

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A lunar vision: the lunar base as a commodity

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A permanent lunar base must be technologically and economically feasible, self-sufficient and politically defensible. Several designs for a permanent settlement on the Moon are discussed along with the many challenges to lunar base construction that must be hurdled.

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