NASA Extracts Oxygen from Lunar Soil Simulant
by Brian Wang from NextBigFuture.com on (#6BN3P)
One of NASA's primary goals is to establish a long-term presence on the lunar surface. Oxygen is a crucial building blocks for making that vision a reality. Oxygen is used for breathing nad can also be used as a propellant for transportation. Scientists at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston successfully extracted oxygen from simulated ...