Doug Plata - Lunar COTS
Doug prefaced his talk by saying that he is a physician.
"Lunar COTS" is a proposed series of NASA public-private program designed to help companies to harvest lunar ice. He handed out a petition before his talk. He has several hundred signatures so far.
He showed a breakdown on the lunar resources.
Step 0 could be some prospecting.
Step 1 building a transportation system
Step 2 creating a set of robots to do the work.
Step 3 excavation of the resources
Benefits of Lunar COTS - Doug quickly went through several benefits.
Doug feels this is inline with some of what NASA is already doing.
The full agenda for Space Access 2013 agenda.
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