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Factories in Space
Space economy - Making products for Earth and space
Listing and analysing potential business opportunities to make unique profitable materials and products in microgravity. If we can establish a Mars colony, we can almost certainly colonize the whole Solar System, because we'll have created a strong economic forcing function for the improvement of space travel. Most important, in a practical sense, would be the construction of factories that could make use of the special properties of space — high and low temperatures, hard radiation.
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