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The Wonder of the Solar System
You rarely see “wonder” among the rationale for human space exploration and expansion. But capturing this sense and experiencing it with those we care…
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We’re Not Going to get Critical Minerals from Space
And that's OK
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It Won’t Take 1 Million People for a City on Mars to be Self-Sustaining
The real number is likely far less
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A Clean Slate for Space Resource Extraction
Surprisingly, one has to make a case not to import coal to the Moon
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Space Green Card
Immigration under the Outer Space Treaty
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Mining Near-Earth Asteroids Makes Little Sense
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Why is everyone going to the *south* pole of the Moon?
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The Amundsen-Isaacman-Weyland Model of Private Space Expeditions
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The Two Axes of Space Resources
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Steelmanning Helium-3
The little isotope packs a punch...maybe an important one?
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Why is everyone going to the *south* pole of the Moon?
The lunar land down under
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Friends, Not Food: The Role of Plants in Space
And fish, and birds, and resurrected woolly mammoths
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The Amundsen-Isaacman-Weyland Model of Private Space Expeditions
Will we soon see a return to the age of polar exploration?
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The Mineralogical Barrier in Space
No such thing as a free lunch in the solar system
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Mining Near-Earth Asteroids Makes Little Sense
So why does the idea persist?
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The Two Axes of Space Resources
If it were three I'd have to use ternary diagrams
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Musings on space resources and planetary development
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Musings on space resources and planetary development.

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