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  2. From: juan@hal.COM (John Thompson Reynolds)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.space
  4. Subject: Aluminum as rocket fuel?
  5. Message-ID: <1hn3drINNq6@nuala.hal.COM>
  6. Date: 28 Dec 92 14:36:43 GMT
  7. Sender: news@hal.com
  8. Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
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  12. I've seen references in the past which suggest using Lunar O2 and Aluminum
  13. as rocket fuels.  Have there been any fairly detailed designs of how such
  14. a beast would be constructed?  Perhaps a hollow cylinder of packed Aluminum
  15. dust into which LOX is pumped?
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