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NASA ISRU protocol

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NASA's In-Situ Resource Utilization protocol for using local resources on other planets instead of bringing everything from Earth.

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"ISRU is In-Situ Resource Utilization and it's a protocol that NASA's been working on since the late 1950s during the invention of the Cold War."
From: Tom Sach’s Message for Artists Worried About AI • ▶ 1:28:25 • Mar 2026

Attribution: Tom explains NASA's ISRU protocol in detail and uses it as inspiration for his own work