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- From: wools@athena.mit.edu (Aaron M Woolsey)
- Subject: lunar base/life-support on freedom
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.191725.16171@athena.mit.edu>
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- Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 19:17:25 GMT
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- o.k., I'm not an aerospace engineer, just a biology major, but I was
- wondering what the outlook is, in the near future, for establishing a lunar base.
- It seems logical to me that before we start planning a manned mission to Mars,
- we ought to start planning a permanent base on the moon. Is NASA devoting any
- time or resources toward this direction?
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- also, does anybody know how the life-support/environment control systems
- will operate on the space station Freedom (or how they operate on mir)? I
- suppose that these technologies will come in handy when we establish a base on
- the moon. How is oxygen replenished, what's the waste managment program,
- and how will they replenish the water supply. Will Freedom be self-sufficient
- (as its name might imply...)?
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- thanks for your answers in advance...
-
- -Aaron Woolsey
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- wools@athena.mit.edu
-