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NASA’s MOXIE Experiment Is Making Oxygen on Mars – WIRED
Future crews on the Red Planet will need it to make propellant for the trip home. Scientists are also testing whether oxygen can be extracted from lunar soil.
It might be a long time before any astronauts land on MarsNASA is talking about the early 2030s, while SpaceXs Elon Musk has promised it will be sooner. But when humans do touch down, they might find a successor to MOXIE waiting for them. Any crew coming to Mars will likely have their own device onboard their spacecraft that makes oxygen for breathing, so the bigger problem to solve is making the propellant theyll use to fly home. If you want to burn fuel, you need oxygen to burn it with, Hecht…
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