Lunar Soil

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Sierra Space Unveils Breakthrough Technology Designed to Extract Oxygen From Lunar Soil, Enabling Sustainable Human Presence on the Moon

Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth®, announced today the company’s proprietary Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, heralding the first time in history that oxygen has been extracted from simulated lunar soil, or regolith,…