Wet Moon - a new Space Race for Resources? - Lecture by Dr. Tibor Pacher

In the framework of the Belgian Club of Hungarian Scientists:

Wet Moon - a new Space Race for Resources? - Lecture by Dr. Tibor Pacher

For a long time it was thought that the Moon is bone dry and its surface is a barren desert. Recent developments show that there can be a significant amount of water ice in the lunar polar regions and that oxygen - and metals - can be obtained from lunar material practically everywhere on the surface. The vicinity, in Solar System measures, of the Moon makes our companion relatively easily accessible; this, together with the anticipated lunar resources opens the door to create the first permanent settlement bases on another celestial body off Earth. But who are the players and what are the stakes in the game?

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Tibor Pacher, trained as a PhD physicist (Budapest, Heidelberg), has a 10-years academic career, with publications on General Relativity, Cosmology, and Quantum Chemistry topics. He has also a solid background in management and financial accounting consultancy (15+ years), and conducted many projects in 18 countries on 4 continents. He participated in ESA’s Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) mission (ISOPHOT instrument), and created "MiniSpaceWorld - Moon", a model railroad style installation in the Futura Science Center in his home town in Hungary. Since the foundation of Puli Space Technologies in 2010 to participate in the Google Lunar XPRIZE, he is working relentlessly on Hungary's first lunar mission.