UK firm to turn moon rock into oxygen and building materials

Technology seen as a vital component in preparations to establish permanent lunar base

When astronauts return to the moon in the next decade, they will do more with the dust than leave footprints in it.

A British firm has won a European Space Agency contract to develop the technology to turn moon dust and rocks into oxygen, leaving behind aluminium, iron and other metal powders for lunar construction workers to build with.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2IiO7oy