off-planet

Yeah, once you get a lot of stuff (read that infrastructure) up there, and can make fuel on the Moon where it is a lot cheaper to lift it off, then you've got something - at least for missions starting and ending off-planet - BUT you have to get all that infrastructure built first.

Is Space Exploration Worth Funding? - NASA Watch 2009

I'm not sure if my insurance covers procedures performed off-planet.

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How much easier would the next steps of space exploration be if we could send machines that build all of the infrastructure out of off-planet materials before the humans arrive?

Why Some Say the Moon? - NASA Watch 2009

We view the the use of off-planet resources as a uncertain, risky venture, one that is unlikely to draw significant private capital, at least at the beginning.

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

They save the world all the time, but very often this happens off-planet, in another solar system or in another dimension.

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This is the fundamental divide between the prime minister, chancellor and foreign secretary, sceptics who have had to come to terms with the real world and those Tories who still live off-planet.

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He told NASA officials that he was a lifelong admirer of the TV series and did not want to miss this latest big-screen installment while off-planet.

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For instance, I recently spent seven months in Switzerland (mostly in Switzerland, some in northern Italy) and now the stories springing from that experience are starting to come, basically a series of stories set in a town called Syritis Sentrilla, a town that could be on Earth or off-planet.

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We view the the use of off-planet resources as a uncertain, risky venture, one that is unlikely to draw significant private capital, at least at the beginning.

Why the Moon? Here's Why. - NASA Watch 2009

The only survivors were those living off-planet at the time – on the Moon, Mars, the Saturnian and Jovian systems… Over the course of a number of stories and three novels, Varley fleshed out a future history in which humanity struggles to survive – using gifted alien technology – on the various inhospitable worlds of the Solar system.

The Best Science Fiction Series « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010