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By utilizing such indigenous resources, the amount of materiel that must be brought from Earth might be reduced, thus potentially reducing the cost of a space mission.
Before embarking on a discussion of ISRU technology, it is necessary to ask: “What is it worth?”
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Rapp, D. (2013). The value of ISRU. In: Use of Extraterrestrial Resources for Human Space Missions to Moon or Mars. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32762-9_1
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