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From: stevel@haddock.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Lunar colonies
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Date: Fri, 8-Mar-85 23:58:07 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  8 23:58:07 1985
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Nf-From: haddock!stevel    Mar  8 14:13:00 1985

> This would allow for rotation of personnel as well as delivery
> of oxygen etc.

Your going to rotate personel????? How long do you expect people
to stay up there. At the cost of training and sending them up
I would expect at least a three month tour of duty, more likely
six months. Now for the off the cuff calculation.

3 Days transit time * 2 people * 26 times per year = 156 man days wasted

In sending people back, not to mention all the payload lost
due to having to carry the people, fuel and oxygen. Better to
send plants and nitrate to make oxygen on the moon. 

The faster a moon colony is self sufficient the better chance 
of it surviving.

Steve Ludlum, decvax!yale-co!ima!stevel, {ihnp4|cbosgd}!ima!stevel