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Mining the Moon

Take a tour of NASA´s smashing new plan to harvest life-sustaining oxygen and hydrogen from the lunar soil, including a must-see video of the moon-mining craft in action

Before NASA sends astronauts to live on the moon in 2020, per presidential mandate, the agency must first figure out what resources the lunar neighborhood has to offer. Are there stores of ice that could be melted and processed to provide oxygen to breathe and hydrogen for rocket fuel? Or is the potential fuel locked up inside rocks?

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