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Oxygen Made From Moon Dust For First Time
TL;DRScientists extracted oxygen from moon dust using a new reactor technology.
Why it matters: Enables in-situ resource use for sustained lunar bases, reducing Earth launch costs.
"Breathable oxygen has been created from Moon dust," reports the Telegraph, "in a world first that paves the way for a lunar base." Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin ""announced this week that it had developed a reactor that could successfully release oxygen from lunar soil by using an…
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