When it come to cost - saving practice session NASA should look at , harvesting H2O from the moon to cut down on rocket fuel cost may be one of the less ordinarily suggested one . But that does n’t signify that it would n’t work , apparently .
New Scientist reports on plan to microwave lunar stain to unloosen urine corpuscle trap within , allow vapour to rise , condense as hoarfrost on a metal photographic plate placed above the soil , and then collected by hungry cosmonaut . The theory , put forward by Edwin Ethridge of NASA ’s Marshall Space Flight Center and William Kaukler of the University of Alabama , could give astronauts imbibition water or , more imposingly , be used as the first stage in a process that would then split up the water into atomic number 1 and O to make rocket salad fuel , overlook launch toll as each launching would be unaccented without the need to carry enough fuel for the ride home . Paul Spudis of the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston , Texas , is excited by the possibilities :
It altogether changes the space travel image … It ’s like build a transcontinental railroad to space .
All that ’s required now is a logical program to return to the moonlight and begin the process . That ’ll be the easy part , ripe … ?
How astronaut could ‘ reap ’ water on the moon[New Scientist ]
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