e236 Breathing New Life Into Colonizing the Moon? ESA to Produce Oxygen From Lunar Dust
NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) are working together towards \u201ca sustained human presence on the Moon and maybe one day Mars.\u201d Toward that end, the ESA has built a prototype oxygen plant in Noordwijk, Netherlands that extracts breathable oxygen from moon rocks, or \u201clunar regolith\u201d.