Re: Cheap titanium

From: Miles Bader (miles_at_gnu.org)
Date: 12/26/04 

To: sci-space-tech@moderators.isc.org
Date:  Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:14:01 +0900

Earl Colby Pottinger <earlcp@idirect.com> writes:
> Yes there is a new process, see:
>
> http://www.britishtitanium.co.uk/ffc_process.htm

Their home page also has an interesting note:

   British Titanium plc (BTi) is delighted to announce to shareholders that
   a Notice of Intent (in effect, an entry for a competition) submitted to
   the US National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) in partnership with
   Florida Institute of Technology and NASA's Kennedy Space Center for the
   development of an in-situ resource utilisation process to produce oxygen
   on the moon from lunar regolith has been successful.
   ...
   On 16th November British Titanium was informed by NASA's Exploration
   Systems Mission Directorate that their proposal was "among the best
   received and has been selected for award".

Kinda cool ...

-Miles 

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