Laser Beams can be used to change the ionic bonding of elements and compounds, which in turn can make them combine or repel and thus could help us in pre-operational mining efforts on the moon. If we find compounds with hydrogen and oxygen in them; then we can use the laser beams to bombard those compounds and separate them and then allow them to re-combine into water or to make oxygen to breath and hydrogen for fuel.

Perhaps we can do some pre-mining operations on the moon from the ISS or from a space satellite relay system? How could this be done? Well, perhaps by collection the electromagnetic energy from the Earth