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<\/div>To The Moon!<\/h2>
The Australian Space Agency wants to leverage the country’s expertise at mining in remote, inhospitable areas — like, you know, Australia — into a new program<\/a> that would mine for water and other resources from the Moon.<\/p> It’s a bold plan for the fledgling space agency, but one could supercharge Australia’s newfound role in the global space race.<\/p> If water, which thinly blankets<\/a> the moon’s surface, could be harvested in space instead of having to be shuttled up from Earth, the moon could essentially become a jumping-off point — a sort of cosmic fueling station — for missions to Mars and beyond.<\/p> “Getting things from the surface of the Earth into orbit or into deep space costs a lot of money,” Australian space engineer Andrew Dempster told Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>. “If you can produce water in space for less than it costs to get there, then you’re ahead.”<\/p> The Australian Space Agency is less than a year old<\/a>, but Dempster believes that its nimble, startup-like attitude that will let it quickly develop new technology and get to the moon as quickly as possible.<\/p> “We’re not being weighed down by big lumbering agencies and huge multinationals,” Dempster told Bloomberg<\/em>. “There’s a lot of agile people with lots of interesting ideas working in this area. Success can occur quite quickly.”<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Plan to Mine the Moon Gives Australia Opening in New Space Era<\/a> [Bloomberg<\/em>]<\/p> More on the Australian Space Agency:<\/strong> Former NASA Astronaut: Virgin Galactic’s Space Flights Are “Dangerous”<\/a><\/em><\/p> The post Australia Has a Plan to Mine Moon Water<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> Follow this link: To The Moon! The Australian Space Agency wants to leverage the country\u2019s expertise at mining in remote, inhospitable areas \u2014 like, you know,\u00a0Australia\u00a0\u2014 into a new program that would mine for\u00a0water and other resources from the Moon. It\u2019s a bold plan for the fledgling space agency, but one could supercharge Australia\u2019s newfound\u00a0role in the global\u00a0space race. Continue reading Waypoint<\/h2>
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