Commercial lunar propellant architecture: A collaborative study of lunar propellant production
@article{Kornuta2019CommercialLP,
title={Commercial lunar propellant architecture: A collaborative study of lunar propellant production},
author={David Kornuta and Angel Abbud-Madrid and Jared Atkinson and Jon Barr and Gary P. Barnhard and Dallas G. Bienhoff and Brad R. Blair and Vanessa Clark and Justin Cyrus and Blair DeWitt and Christoph Dreyer and Barry W. Finger and Jonathan Goff and Koki Ho and Laura Kelsey and Jim Keravala and Bernard Kutter and Philip T. Metzger and Laura Montgomery and Phillip Morrison and Clive R. Neal and Erica Otto and Gordon Roesler and James Schier and Brandon Seifert and George F. Sowers and Paul D. Spudis and Mark J. Sundahl and Kris Zacny and Guangdong Zhu},
journal={REACH},
year={2019}
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