- Information about Lunar ice and its proof
- The vision of Jeff Bezos to convert the Lunar
ice into the fuel of Rocket
- Future of the Moon to be the base
of the Space Exploration
- Organizations and Projects Jeff Bezos directly involved in
Jeff Bezos envisions lunar ice as
the resource of Rocket fueling. The richest man in this world has shared his profound
knowledge and idea of how the ice stored in the moon can be transferred into fuel
that can power up the rockets.
CEO of Amazon and the founder of the great Space
company Blue Origin amazed us with his brilliant plan of setting up a base at the
moon to explore the space further in the coming days. During the JFK Space Summit held
in Boston, Massachusetts on Wednesday, Bezos said, “…one of the things I learned
during Apollo Programme that there are deposits of ice at the bottom of the
craters of the moon… We can harvest that ice and use it to make hydrogen and
oxygen, which is rocket propellants.”
He added, “The reason we chose those
propellants are because we know one day, we’ll be refueling the vehicle on the surface of the Moon from the propellants made on the surface of the Moon from that
water ice.”
Water is present on the moon's surface in the form of ice is well known to everybody by this time. The information
is seconded in August 2018 by NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard India’s
Chandrayaan-1 Space Craft currently orbiting the Moon.
In May, Bezos unveiled a
new Moon-lander called 'Blue Moon' along with a smaller rover and spoke about
his plans to get to the Moon by 2024. "We must return to the Moon -
this time to stay," the Blue Origin CEO had said.
With its Latin tagline of “step
by step, ferociously,” Blue Origin has been working on multiple space systems
at the same time. In addition to Blue Moon, the company is building a rocket
for space tourism called New Shepard, as well as a giant rocket called New
Glenn will launch satellites and another spacecraft.
It is reported that Bezos invests
more than $1 billion in the company each year, through sales of his Amazon
shares.
Bezos also shared his vision of
humans living on miles-long, orbiting space stations called 'O'Neill colonies',
named after physicist Gerard O'Neill, who first floated the concept.
However, SpaceX founder Elon Musk mocked Bezos's moon plans, saying, "They make no sense".
We better wait for the time and technology
to answer.
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