"Bob Noel" wrote:
Everything launched from the moon will have to be launched from
Earth
first. Anything going to Mars will have to escape gravity twice.

Not true.

True unless you posit a moon base that mines raw materials, refines
them, and manufactures Mars shot equipment from scratch - an absurd idea
in the time frame of Bush's plan.
--
Dan
C172RG at BFM
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