The Journal of Space Commerce

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Extracting Oxygen from Moon Dust has Multiple Benefits

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Tom Patton
Dec 02, 2020
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British engineers are fine-tuning a process for extracting oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into construction materials for a Moon base.

"In the future, if we want to travel extensively in space and set up bases on the Moon and Mars, then we will need to make or find the things required to support life - food,…

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