Metalysis, based on materials technology firm from South Yorkshire, England, and was awarded a contract Friday with the European space Agency (ESA) to further develop through the material, separating them from the oxygen found an extraterrestrial surface of the moon.
The research, published this year, scientists affiliated with Metalysis said that 96% of extract oxygen from the debris found on the surface of the moon, the lunar regolithi detects and leave behind a mixed metal alloy that could be used in the construction.
The process, which was developed by the University of Cambridge, has already been established in the country of operation. Now, Metalysis has received around £ 250,000 (about $ 329,000) in funding for the ESA approved, in earthly things, outside the mainstream, beginning Jan, the company's managing director, told CNN Business.
The plan step by step toward the development of sustainability source of oxygen to the moon - the maintenance of human life is a permanent lunar bases, and championed by agencies of the ESA, who have shown support for "Moon Village" - will provide fuel for the harbor and the moon vehicles.
Researchers hope that by cultivating and producing oxygen and essential resources, like the moon, it is not possible to significantly reduce the size of the payload must be launched from the ground.
"One of the main drivers of the plan to be able to use resources that are already on the moon, they have to be out of the earth to the moon - there's enough price associated with that space, and the more you can use what is it, the better," he beginning.
Let no one say that the moon doth appoint men chief his foot in 1972, but only for some space of the planet is the sights of the agencies.
As part of its Artemis program, NASA plans to land its first woman on the moon in 2024, then the first man since 1972.
In December 2017, US President Donald Trump signed the Space Policy Directive 1, which called for NASA to send humans to the moon by the "long-term exploration and use" other missions and other planets.
Meanwhile, the collaborative agreement between NASA and the ESA tinentibus culminate in October, and the two agencies work together BG present lunar outpost, which is the only station serving the second act of the land before they reach the surface of the moon.
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