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To sustainably survive on the Moon, the rock that stretches as far as the eye can see across its surface might well be able to provide us with the air we need to breathe. Eugene A. Cernan/NASA

Is extracting oxygen from lunar soil the future of space exploration?

Jack Robinot, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS); Université de Perpignan Via Domitia; Alexis Paillet, Centre national d’études spatiales (CNES); Stéphane Abanades, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), and Sylvain Rodat, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)

As lunar missions are back in vogue with engineering more sustainable human presence on the Moon in mind, there’s no getting away from the fact that you can’t breathe on a satellite that has no atmosphere.
As this illustration of the Apollo VIII command module reentering Earth shows, heat shields protect the crew capsule from high temperatures. NASA Johnson Space Center

NASA’s crew capsule had heat shield issues during Artemis I − an aerospace expert on these critical spacecraft components

Marcos Fernandez Tous, University of North Dakota

It’s a good idea to make sure your spacecraft can take the heat that comes with reentering Earth’s atmosphere before you put people in it.

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  1. Artemis program
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