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The sustainable industrialisation of the Moon will be one of the first
important milestones of mankind in using resources from space to
preserve and safeguard our blue planet. EuroSpaceward intents to draw attention of European stakeholders on the following recently introduced NASA engineering challenges that focus on making lunar operations as self-sufficient as possible and, as a long-term goal, to export materials and energy to Earth. Regolith Excavation Challenge ( link to http://regolith.csewi.org/ ) |
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| Spiral mining of lunar regolith
Courtesy: NASA Moon Regolith Oxigen Challenge ( link to http://centennialchallenges.nasa.gov/cc_challenges.htm#moonrox ) |