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Big News / Small Bytes7. 9. 20 Buried Treasure7. 9. 20NASANASA just awarded substantial funding to Pioneer Astronautics, a company that claims it can gather up lunar regolith and turn it into usable oxygen.Pioneer Astronautics is one of four companies to win funding through a newly-established of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research program, . The company will split the total $17 million pot with three other firms ­— though the exact breakdown hasn't been disclosed — because the space agency believes it could prove valuable to the .The plan — gathering up the Moon's loose rocks and dust and abracadabra-ing some oxygen out of it — is less outlandish than it seems. Lunar regolith can be as in some regions of the Moon, and gasses like oxygen can get trapped down there amidst the rubble.Pioneer Astronautics' plan to extract and make use of that oxygen is still a difficult technological feat — hence the millions of dollars in funding — but there's no actual wizardry involved.This also isn't Pioneer Astronautics' first rodeo with NASA. The company has won several rounds of funding from the space agency, dating back to for its plan to scoop up Moon air.At that point, NASA was interested in developing a supply of breathing air for astronauts, but a says the program could help provide oxides for batteries and launch vehicles. Either way, it poses a fascinating attempt to make lunar bases self-sustaining.READ MORE: [TechCrunch]More on Artemis: Copyright ©, Camden Media Inc All Rights Reserved. See our , . The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with prior written permission of Futurism. Fonts by Typekit and Monotype.

Big News / Small Bytes7. 9. 20 Buried Treasure7. 9. 20NASANASA just awarded substantial funding to Pioneer Astronautics, a company that claims it can gather up lunar regolith and turn it into usable oxygen.Pioneer Astronautics is one of four companies to win funding through a newly-established of NASA's Small Business Innovation Research program, . The company will split the total $17 million pot with three other firms ­— though the exact breakdown hasn't been disclosed — because the space agency believes it could prove valuable to the .The plan — gathering up the Moon's loose rocks and...

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