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ARCHIVE: Real World: Using Lunar Soil to Make Oxygen

ARCHIVE: Real World: Using Lunar Soil to Make Oxygen

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NASA's plans to return to the moon never materialized, but the ideas and innovations considered for lunar explorations advanced technology. Travel to Hawaii to see tests using a special reactor and a process called hydrogen reduction to release oxygen from the volcanic soil. This process was being tested for possible use on the moon.

Published on: October 07, 2010

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NASA; oxygen; hydrogen reduction; volcanic; resources; moon; Hawaii; extraction, Frank Schowengerdt, insitu, Tom Simon, rover, Bill Larson, NASA eClips, NIA, RealWorld Mathematics, Middle School, science, technology, engineering, mathematics, STEM, Educati
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