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NASA Says Sierra Space Corp.’s carbothermal reactor has reached TRL 6.
Credit: NASA/Brian Sacco
A team of scientists at NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) in Houston have successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a test. Producing oxygen from lunar dirt and rocks is a critical part of NASA’s plan to establish a long-term human presence on the Moon. In addition to being life...
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