[FPSPACE] Russia to start extracting helium on Moon

[Chris Faranetta]

Forget about Helium 3 the real news here is that RSCE is moving forward
with its incremental plans to develop a Soyuz capable of conducting
lunar missions.  

We could use Helium 3 to power the elevator used to climb the tower to
geostationary orbit though.

CF



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[mailto:fpspace-bounces at friends-partners.org] On Behalf Of Keith
Gottschalk
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 9:12 AM
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Subject: [FPSPACE] Russia to start extracting helium on Moon

   This sort of fantasy was always, er, sent up, by Dwayne Day.

1.   No one on Earth can make a sustainable thermo-nuclear fusion
reactor.

2. Fantasy no. 2 is that after R& D takes the great leap forward to the
world's first successful thermonuclear reactor, all of a sudden S&T and
R&D suddenly freeze & fossilize. After success with a thermonuclear
reactor, it will be a far less tough advance, & take far less than five
decades, to move sustainable fusion reactors from He3 to the vastly
cheaper deuterium, and last to mimic the sun & fuse 4 H atoms together.

3. How is the budget for Kliper after ESA refused to chip in? Does
Kliper's multi-year budget go as far as a flight-ready full scale
prototype? Or for what component of the budget did the Russians approach
ESA?

Keith

>
>>>> David M Harland <dave.harland at ntlworld.com> 27-Apr-06 2:40:23 PM
>>>
>>Russia to start extracting helium on Moon as Soyuz goes digital
>>15:00|27/ 04/ 2006
>>MOSCOW, April 27 (RIA Novosti) - Spacecraft manufacturer Energiya
said
>>Thursday that its new digitally-controlled Soyuz TMA vehicles will be
used
>>to extract lunar reserves of helium-3 until a reusable shuttle comes
online.
>
>It's a hell of a leap from installing digital avionics into a Soyuz 
>and somehow 'extracting' helium 3 from the Moon - like some sort of 
>lander for a start!!!
>
>dmh

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