Extraterrestrial Materials Processing and Construction

Extraterrestrial Materials Processing and Construction
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 706
Release: 1980
Genre: Chemical processes
ISBN:

Three different chemical processing schemes were identified for separating lunar soils into the major oxides and elements. Feedstock production for space industry; an HF acid leach process; electrorefining processes for lunar free metal and metal derived from chemical processing of lunar soils; production and use of silanes and spectrally selective materials; glass, ceramics, and electrochemistry workshops; and an econometric model of bootstrapping space industry are discussed.

Taking Science to the Moon

Taking Science to the Moon
Author: Donald A. Beattie
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2003-08-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801874406

"Transports the reader behind NASAs facade, and into the 1960s' politics, planning sessions, turf battles, camaraderie, and jealousies of the world's major space agency. An absorbing, insightful, and revealing critical history." -- The Observatory