708. Water Ice and Oxygen: ISRU, Resource Reality, and the Difference Between Discovery and Capability | ENDURE BEYOND

After 'Dust Is a Warfighter' taught contamination-control doctrine, 'Water Ice and Oxygen' asks the resource question: Can the Moon help sustain the mission, or does everything still have to be dragged from Earth? Water ice matters. Oxygen matters. ISRU matters. But discovery is not capability.A resource is not useful because it exists. It is useful when the system can use it. In this episode, Darius Riddick teaches the ISRU capability ladder and how even in everyday life on Earth to successfully Detect, Map, Verify, Access, Extract, Process, Store, Distribute, Use, Repeat, Scale of resources.Get access to the Gold Vault at Gold.EndureBeyondPod.comJoin the community at EndureBeyondPod.com