I had been teaching a class at Johnson Space Center the week before. The students said they could get me a gallery pass for Mission Control. I turned it down because I wanted to go home and I would have had to stay in Houston over the weekend. Had I not gone home I would have been in Mission Control when it happened. Actually I am glad I was not there.

You don't necessarily need fuel just energy. A rail gun type system could theoretically do it. I am not really sure what the Moon has that the Earth needs. We have plenty of iron, silicon, aluminum, oxygen, ect... We really don't have a need for He3 yet. In some far future SciFi time it might be interesting to get material that was not at the bottom of such a deep gravity well and thick atmosphere into deep space.