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Publications:

Lunar Mining:

"Exopolitical Implications, Commerce, Mining Operations and Creation of Preserves on the Moon and Mars in the 21st Century" - Shifting the Earth from Hydrocarbon Dependency to Cold Fusion Efficiency - Joseph A. Resnick. Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
"Exopolitical Implications, Commerce, Mining Operations and Creation of Preserves on the Moon and Mars in the 21st Century" Shifting the Earth from Hydrocarbon Dependency to Cold Fusion Efficiency - Joseph A. Resnick. Ph.D., Professor Emeritus
"In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Capability Roadmap, Progress Review", Gerald B. Sanders - NASA Chair, Dr. Michael Duke - External Chair April 12, 2005
"Report on the Construction and Testing of a Bucket Wheel Excavator", Dale S. Boucher, Jim Richard, Northern Centre for Advanced Technology Inc

Mars Mining:

"Lunar and Martian Fiberglass as a Versatile Family of ISRU Value-Added Products", Gary "ROD" Rodriguez, Systems Architect, sysRAND Corporation, Space Resources Roundtable VI (2004)
"Mars Deep Drilling Remains a High Priority" Humboldt C. Mandell, Univ. of Texas Center for Space Research, Space Resources Roundtable VI (2004)
"Drilling to Extract Liquid Water on Mars: Feasible and Worth the Investment", C. Stoker, MS 245-3, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA' Space Resources Roundtable VI (2004)

Extra Terrestrial Mineral Reports:

"The Minerals and Their Value; Clementine Mission" (funded by the Department of Defense) - Preliminary study

General Related:

"The Theoretical Impact How Micro-Encapsulation Could Effect the Earth and it's Oceans" - Resnick, J.

"Towards Lunar Archaeology"; Dr. Alexey V. Arkhipov; Institute of Radio Astronomy, Nat. Acad. Sci. of Ukraine

Logistics of the Construction of a Lunar-based Observatory. J. Bernabeu, J. M. Carrasco, E. Colell, IEEC, Catalonia Space Studies Institute, Spain.

Outside Links:

An Apollo astronaut argues that with its vast stores of nonpolluting nuclear fuel, our lunar neighbor holds the key to Earth's future. However, before we mine it, we'll need to determine who owns the moon?

Official Press Releases:

Subject: Discovery of Ice on the Moon - U.S. Department of Defense; Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Public Affairs) - News Transcript Presenter: Dr. Dwight Duston, Assistant Deputy for Technology, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization; December 04, 1996 1:45 PM EST. DoD News Briefing. Tuesday, December 3, 1996 - 1:45 p.m.

Resources:

The Center for Space Resources (CSR) is a research and technology development center dedicated to the human and robotic exploration of space and the utilization of its resources for the benefit of humankind through the joint efforts of academic institutions, government agencies, international partners and the private sector.

Patents:

US PATENT 5,092,545; "Method of Delivering Lunar Generated Fluid to Earth Orbit Using an External Tank"

ABSTRACT
A method and apparatus are provided for delivering lunar generated fluid to Earth orbit from lunar orbit. Transport takes place in an external tank of a shuttle which has been suitably outfitted in Earth orbit for reusable travel between Earth orbit and a lunar orbit. The outfitting of the external tank includes the adding of an engine, an electrical system, a communication system, a guidance system, an aerobraking device, and a plurality of interconnected fluid storage tanks to the hydrogen and oxygen tanks of the external tank. The external tank is then propelled to lunar orbit the first time using Earth based propellant. In lunar orbit, the storage tanks are filled with the lunar generated fluid with the remainder tank volumes filled with lunar generated liquid oxygen and hydrogen which serve as propellants for returning the tank to Earth orbit where the fluid is off-loaded. The remaining lunar generated oxygen and hydrogen is then sufficient to return the external tank to lunar orbit so that a subsequent cycle of fluid delivery is repeated. A space station in a higher Earth orbit is preferably used to outfit the external tank, and a lunar node in lunar orbit is used to store and transfer the fluid and liquid oxygen and hydrogen to the external tank. The lunar generated fluid is preferably 3He. Publication date: 1992-03-03 Inventor: BUTTERFIELD ANSEL J (US); GOSLEE JOHN W (US) Applicant: NASA (US)