From: mark@unicorn.com
Date: Thu Jul 22 1999 - 07:29:57 MDT
Spike Jones [spike66@ibm.net] wrote:
>Ya, but our chances of making indigenous fuels muuuuch better
>on Mars than on the moon. The moon is both carbon
>poor and hydrogen poor.
As of a couple of years ago the leading contendor was a mixture of aluminum
powder and liquid oxygen; it's not very efficient, but good enough to get
you to lunar orbit and/or heading back to Earth with a reasonable mass
ratio.
Mark
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