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hordeallergy
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Rocket Propellant from Lunar Soil
How about a space elevator?
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Unfortunately the moon turns very slowly. It is tidally locked to Earth. The cable of a moon space elevator would have to be the length of the moon-earth distance.
sfifs
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Actually can be built with existing materials I remember reading
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