This request will, in theory, allow industry and researchers to provide details on technologies that enable future moon-dwellers to produce, capture, and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil.
As support for this concept, NASA pointed to the Perseverance Mars rover’s MOXIE experiment, which repeatedly transformed carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into breathable oxygen.
Though MOXIE only produced about 0.2 ounces (6 grams) — about equivalent to a small tree on Earth — its preliminary tests nevertheless proved the first time that a human device created oxygen on another world.
NASA believes a similar technology would be a tremendous boon to astronauts who will spend time on the moon in the future as part of its Artemis program.
Producing oxygen on the moon means that astronauts need to carry less of it with them, saving valuable weight and allowing them to stay off-Earth for longer missions.
Before actually having astronauts try making oxygen for themselves, however, NASA plans to showcase the tech to do so as part of a demonstration it calls the Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1).
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This request will, in theory, allow industry and researchers to provide details on technologies that enable future moon-dwellers to produce, capture, and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil.
As support for this concept, NASA pointed to the Perseverance Mars rover’s MOXIE experiment, which repeatedly transformed carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into breathable oxygen.
Though MOXIE only produced about 0.2 ounces (6 grams) — about equivalent to a small tree on Earth — its preliminary tests nevertheless proved the first time that a human device created oxygen on another world.
NASA believes a similar technology would be a tremendous boon to astronauts who will spend time on the moon in the future as part of its Artemis program.
Producing oxygen on the moon means that astronauts need to carry less of it with them, saving valuable weight and allowing them to stay off-Earth for longer missions.
Before actually having astronauts try making oxygen for themselves, however, NASA plans to showcase the tech to do so as part of a demonstration it calls the Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies (LIFT-1).
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