"Typically a habitat is less than the cost of large rocketry, " Michael Griffin of NASA told AP, and successfully utilizing the native materials on the moon will be a crucial to creating a viable base there.

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"There are just a handful of applications that need to run native 64-bit, like the data base applications and security, which is significantly enhanced on 64-bit, " Pope said.

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