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		henryfjordan 57 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA chief suggests SpaceX may be booted from moon... Is it? You have a build a whole fuel refinery on the Moon before it's worth even thinking about. And even then, you have to get whatever you want to launch to the moon in the first place...

kulahan 57 days ago [–]

Building the fuel refinery is a high upfront cost which will quickly disappear. The delta-V required to exit Earth's surface is nearly an order of magnitude higher than what's required to exit the Moon's surface, and the moon is full of fuel.

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