FUNDING
- how will we pay for space development and settlement? -


ADDITIONAL REVENUE

  • CLPS payments

  • Pay-to-drive

  • Cargo deliveries

  • Lunar burial

  • (Inter)national space budgets

  • Private savings for settlement

  • Return samples:
         - Jewelry & collector's items
         - Scientific analysis

  • Entertainment:
         - VR
         - Reality TV
         - Lunar olympics
         - Movies
         - Gambling
         - Shows to residents

  • Advertising:
         - Commercials
         - Including product placement
         - Branding

  • Transmitting bits:
         - Telework
         - Inventions

  • Tourism:
         - External tourism
         - Internal tourism

  • Services to settlers:
         - Facilities construction & maintenance
         - Including specialty habs
         - Including gardening
         - Equipment set-up
         - Health / fitness / medical
              - Nursing (home) care
         - Food production & serving
         - Religious services
         - Animal care
         - Education & training

  • Manufacturing:
         - Including metallurgy

  • Material resources:
         - Propellant (water-derived):
              - Ascent / descent
              - Boost LEO to GEO
              - Mars exploration & settlement
         - PGMs
         - He-3
         - Thorium for power
         - KREEP for fertilizer
         - Metals:
              - For telerobots
              - For equipment
              - For habitat structures
         - ISRU products for settlers & tourists
         - Chemistry

  • Power production:
         - In situ (e.g. PELs)
         - Transmitted from EMLs
         - To Earth

  • Teleoperations

  • Research:
         - Government sponsored
         - Company sponsored

  • Biohazard lab

  • Road construction

  • Navigation & communication services

  • Habitat (e.g. hotels & settlement) set up

  • Value of land ownership / exclusive use
         - Sale of constructed habitats.

  • Earth-based Moon-related businesses

  • Philanthropic support:
         - e.g. Survival Colony & BioPreserve

  • Launching materials:
         - For SSP
         - For O'Neillian colonies
         - For spaceships

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