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Jerry Pournelle vaguely remembers that in the early 60s there was a
project to plan a one-way lunar mission in case the Russians seemed
to be beating us to the moon.  Here are some notes on a telephone
conversation mainly devoted to it.

Project Pilgrim
code name, was classified
it was to hard land oxygen [Lowell says that wouldn't work].
requirements of colony

Konrad Buettner, professor U. Washington, medicine and meteorology
(deceased) wrote about lunar colonies
Wright-Patterson
Boeing might have documents
Freeman Dyson may know something. 609 924-4400, home 924-2152
David Smith

study on self-replicating systems in space

P. proposed lunar colony as self-replicating system
Tukey and Cannon agreed

1st in 1995

we can't do it

Minsky: Are you telling me as a high official of NASA
that we can't do in ten years what we once did in eight?