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Japan's moon probe landed upside-down but somehow it still works
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It's not to bring back to earth, it's to use in space, water is heavy and it's crazy expensive to put water into space.
Water is:
So yeah, there's too many uses for water in space and it's really difficult to lift into orbit from Earth. Even if some future moon base starts producing an excess of water, it'll be used to resupply other space habitats or vehicles.
thanks for the clarification
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