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Turning Moon dust into oxygen – YubaNet
November 27, 2020 – British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be…
November 27, 2020 British engineers are fine-tuning a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base.
It could be an early step to establishing an extra-terrestrial oxygen extraction plant. This would help to enable exploration and sustain life on the Moon while avoiding the enormous cost of sending materials from Earth.
The oxygen generated would mostly be used to make rocket fuel, but…
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