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danielravennest t1_iv5cxdm wrote

"In-Situ Resource Utilization" (ISRU) is NASA's disguise name for "space mining". They disguise the name because certain reactionary members of Congress would lose their shit if they knew what NASA was planning.

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The_Solar_Oracle t1_iv5xbja wrote

ISRU typically means producing stuff for immediate use, rather then large scale extraction and export.

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