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Originally Posted by Fat_Hippo
Yeah, but wouldn't the transportation costs for all the building material to the moon be enormous? Sounds like it would be more trouble than it's worth.
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The thing is, you use something like 80% of a rocket's fuel just getting out of the Earth's atmosphere. If you wanted to plan a long range mission (to Mars for example) you'd have to re-fuel in space - so why not set up a base on the moon were you can stock-pile resources and have the space to erect some kind of launchpad without building a huge orbiting space station.
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