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[ad_1] Washington: British engineers are developing a process that will be used to extract oxygen from lunar dust, leaving behind metal powders that could be 3D printed into building materials for a moon base. It could be a first step towards the creation of an extraterrestrial oxygen extraction plant. This …

[ad_1] British engineers are working on a technology that extracts oxygen from moon dust, releasing metal as a byproduct that could be used to build moon-based equipment via 3D printing. On November 27, the ESA team, led by University of Glasgow PhD student and ESA researcher Beth Lomax and ESA …