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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
I'm just musing. The assembly on the moon or in orbit would make sense if you could assemble craft without worrying about them breaking earth base gravity.
You could build smaller or lighter ships that use less fuel in orbit.
Ha, maybe I'm playing too much Kerbel, I mean I've only killed about 100 of the little monsters in my quest for earths orbit.
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Ya, you just have to imagine how to even get started on that. Think of all the different materials and processes needed to make a craft able to survive in space. If the moon does have useful minerals, you'd still need to extract and process them, turn them into usable raw metals, form them into parts...just the materials to make the manufacturing facilities would require an unimaginable amount of energy to get them to orbit or the moon.
More realistically I think we still build the components on Earth, and find a way to extract and process fuels from in situ materials.