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OCR: COLONIES IN SPACE LIVING IN SPACE WORKING ON THE MOON Moon rock is rich in useful raw materials MARE MOSCOVIENSE and could supply the Earth or a space station with essential minerals in the future. Lunar colonies could mine HERTZSPRUNG materials from Moon rock. Space tugs KOROLYOVI could capture asteroids, which are also rich in minerals, and tow them to lunar MARE INGENIL building sites. The first colony built on the APOLLO Moon may be around an observatory. Without an atmosphere to blur a telescope's view of space and block FAR-SIDE FREQUENCY invisible forms of radiation such as X-rays, Situated on the Moon's it is an ideal place to practice astronomy. far side, radio telescopes Larger telescopes could be built than on would be shielded from interference from the Earth because the mirror ...