Lunar Industrial Park

In about five years, SpaceX is going to deliver a reusable rocket that can deliver a one hundred ton payload into earth orbit. With in-orbit refueling, SpaceX can deliver one hundred tons to the surface of the moon. Once SpaceX installs a fuel refinery on the surface of mars, SpaceX will be able to deliver a one hundred ton payload to Mars. If we were to install fuel refineries farther out in space, SpaceX could send their rocket from refinery to refinery to ship a one hundred ton payload across the solar system. All of this at a cost of two to ten million dollars per payload.

This is the beginning of the Buck Rogers future only found on the covers of dime novels. However, the limitation is that anything we build will have to fit inside the cargo bay of SpaceX's rocket. That's just a little bit bigger than a large shipping container

This is our moment. The US should build an industrial park on the moon. We could build bigger, better, faster. We could go farther. We could see farther. We could do more than land and plant flags. We should seize our destiny