How is working on sending a levitator to the moon to collect the
dust as a high temperature, high pressure industrial lubricant. He's using
his flight simulators and ballistic calculators to fly the necessary
trajectory. The dust is less than a micron in diameter, perfectly round,
made of volcanic glass and is worth a million dollars a pound. How hopes to
have a ten pound payload vehicle.

This proposal comes as a compomise given the cicumstances. We would have preferred that our
own efforts would be increasing our revenue quicker and that this plan could be developed
under less pressure.

Going back to NASA and the Aerospace industry would be problematic but it would give us the
flexibility to fish around in the private sector and see what possibilities there were
without having to play all the cards. This proposal is the endgame. I trust you will keep a
lid on this.

The problem with exploiting the properties of the extreme vacuum of space whether it be for
power sources or insulated antennas is that the capital involved to set up an assembly line
to profit from the payload would be far more expensive than the vehicle. We can afford the
vehicle; our overhead as small as it is, is outpacing the inflow so far and we are cutting
it close. What is needed is a low capitalization but profitable and marketable payload.

THE PLAN:-Scoop up the lunar dust and use it as the most advanced industrial lubricant
known, way beyond any doable with microfabrication; MICROSCOPIC BALLBEARINGS. Detailed
reports I have from the Apollo Missions show that a high percentage of the moondust is a micron
in diameter or less, perfectly round volcanic glass capable of taking extreme pressure and
temperature and according to an Apollo astronaut I know who walked on it extremely slippery.
Every demanding industrial application from loudspeaker tweeters to the turbopumps on launch
vehicles to drilling rigs would benefit from it. Only very thin coatings are required. This
moondust would be worth it's weight in diamonds around $ 1,000,000 per pound. A ten pound
payload on a thirty pound vehicle could turn around production.

THE TECHNICAL PROBLEMS:-Even after everything flys ok indoors a vehicle has to work reliably
up and down doing suborbitals. This is relatively a straightforward solvable problem.
The trouble begins when you try to go a quarter of a million miles in ten hours at speeds of
30,000 mph with only one ground station and no deep space network. You have around ten hours
to be safely above the radio horizon. You have to go ELF to use the propulsion for signalling
and avoid FCC licensing. You have to park in orbit before you can land. The mission is for two
days as it will take ten hours to come back. Also the Moon has no Geomagnetic central field
only anomalies. An indution beam propulsion shown in the patent is needed along with the solar
wind to tack across. Specific Impulse falls down but is manageable.

BIG DANGERS:-1. Can the vehicle handle the extreme velocity or will it vibrate itself into
chaotic self destruction? Rockets fly glassy smooth. The magnetosphere is a bumpy ride. Not
much at low altitudes but out to 60 radii it gets messy. 2. Will the Radio Control and
Tracking System be able to work at such a great distance?

BIG SOLUTIONS:-1. In house Ballistic Calculators can help minimize flight errors. And, if
the vehicle misbehaves you loose it and build a new one. The test vehicle is smaller than the
production vehicle, quick and cheap to replace. 2. You try and try again. The system is
operating wideband undemodulated. You literally hear everything. If need be digital tracking
filters are in house with a huge toolbox of components to select from. Unusual modulation,
encoding and tracking will make the signal pop out the "soup".

THE DEAL:-A stake in the payload at discount, options on future payloads, and collateral
benefit to your own business development. Also we can broker your stakehold if you like.
We need enough to cover our overhead. The higher our groundstation altitude the clearer
the signal. All of this could be done in a few months, figure a year. You get to see things
as they happen. There must be a tight security lid.

CONCLUSIONS:-For years we have invested in this technology with false starts, false hopes,
great dangers, lots of unraveled deals and delays. All the time research progress has been
made and books and equipment have been acquired. Living has been difficult, entertainment is
an underutilization and time in life is shrinking. This is it! LUNAR LUBRICANT (TM)