Artist's impression of a future Lunar Supply Base with a lunar mass driver (the long straight cylinder). The driver has been proposed as a machine for

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Artist's impression of a future Lunar Supply Base with a lunar mass driver (the long straight cylinder). The driver has been proposed as a machine for shooting minerals mined from the moon out into space, where they would be collected by spacecraft for use in space manufacture or for return to Earth.

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Photo credit: © NASA/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: base, colonisation, colonizaton, colony, driver, industrialisation, industrialization, lunar, manned, mass, moon, space