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So, we have yet another promising target for manned space exploration. The water can, of course, be dissociated to create rocket fuel. I imagine that some of these asteroids will eventually be...

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Re: Dawn spacecraft finds signs of water on Vesta

@Tom Harris, ideas like that makes me wish I was born in the year 3000.

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Re: Dawn spacecraft finds signs of water on Vesta

Disassociation of the H2O wouldn't just create the necessary components of fuel through the recombination process to produce thrust, but also the oxygen to breathe, water to drink and rehydrate dried...

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I have to wonder if we won't "get lucky" as far as water asteroid, or cometary fragment deposition on the Moon, yet.....as, with no atmosphere to cause drag, and thus only tidal forces to cause the...

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