Lunar water for sale. Only $0.99 per gallon, plus $100,000 shipping and handling from Earth. When the next closest store is 240,000 miles away, buying local takes on a whole new meaning. This image illustrates the enormous incentive to learn how to use local lunar resources. Space exploration will have to pay for itself if we want a meaningful presence and future in space. The last 50+ years of budgetary data shows the limits of NASA funding. Congress won't adequately fund Apollo 2.0 or Mars 1.0. That's why creating an in-space economy based on these local space resources is paramount and the most realistic path forward. A blue-collar future in space IS our future in space.
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