The Moon may be dusty and desolate, but its future could be full of traffic. In this extended edition, we explore how mass drivers, rockets, space elevators, and orbital logistics could turn the Moon into the industrial gateway of the Solar System.

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Credits:

Mass Drivers on the Moon: Enabling a Lunar Economy

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editor: Phil Swan

Graphics:

Apogii.uk

Anthrofuturism

Jeremy Jozwik

Sergio Botero

Phil Swan

Select imagery/video supplied by Getty Images

Music Courtesy of Epidemic Sound http://epidemicsound.com/creator

Chapters

0:00 Intro

0:09 Why the Moon, Why Launch?

4:12 Mass Drivers: The Basics and the Vision

8:24 Building the Lunar Launch Rail

13:15 The Big Advantages: Why Mass Drivers—And Why the Moon?

20:09 Challenges and Engineering Considerations

28:29 Rockets and Space Elevators: Friends or Rivals?

31:06 The Logistics Web of the Moon

32:30 The Roadmap: From Testbed to Trade Empire

34:28 Mad Kings

35:35 The Moon as Our First Cosmic Freight Terminal

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