Re: Building L-5 habitats. [was Re: retrieving material from asteroids]


On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Mike Combs wrote:

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Personally, I expect the first humans to walk on Mars well before we start
on anything near the scale of High Frontier. On the other hand, I expect
nothing on Mars beyond small expeditions sent only for scientific research
until space resources become available for use in HEO, and there is
significant manufacturing capability there.
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Regards,
Mike Combs

Actually, I believe quite the opposite: the use of small Torus shaped initial colonies and retrievel from asteroids like Nereus, should be much cheaper and easier than travel to Mars. But you are right about the 2nd point: the potential of O'Niell colonies is far vaster than that of Mars

-- Larry Gales
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