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assembled robotically but day-to-day operations
are performed by humans. We are the only manned
Selected excerpts from the mining operation on the lunar surface. Our main
log of Alice Torres: Lunar Mining product is Helium-3, which we extract from the first
Operations Manager, 2 meters of regolith and send back to Earth via small
High Altitude Work Corporation
rockets. We also extract hydrogen to make rocket
fuel. Because of the low gravity here on the Moon,
transporting material to Earth only takes about
1/20th of the fuel needed to launch the same mass
ENGINEER’S LOG: to here from Earth.
JANUARY 3, 2040 13:44 PST
This is my first day as operations manager for the Today I met with the 12-person crew, toured the
Lunar Mining Outpost near Shackleton crater at the facility, and settled into my quarters. I had seen the
south pole of the moon. Although robotic mining drawings of the facility, but they didn’t convey scale
has been used on asteroids for years, the scale very well. It’s much smaller than I had imagined. We
and nature of our extraction process necessitates have a decently sized multipurpose room built in
human operators. This outpost was mostly a hemispherical shape that serves as our kitchen,
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