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NASA Offers Reward for Extracting O2 from Moondust

Posted by timothy on from the what-about-non-breathable-air dept.

DoubleWhopper writes "Break out the duct tape and paper clips. NASA has announced a $250,000 reward to the "first team of scientists to invent a way to extract breathable oxygen from lunar soil". Wired reports, "Inventors who attempt the Moon Regolith Oxygen (or MoonROx) challenge will have just eight hours to extract at least 11 pounds of breathable oxygen from a simulated form of lunar soil.""

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  1. NASA's budget cuts are starting to show by HillaryWBush · · Score: 4, Insightful

    So, is that 11 pounds on earth, or on the moon? And if you can do this, why accept just $250,000 for what could be the biggest invention in human history?