Sep/090
Permanent Space Post: a step closer
As you most likely know already, our moon does not have a atmosphere as Earth's, which, among other things, holds the precious oxygen that we breath and use to grow food or create water. Lack of oxygen has been one of the main limiting factors to create a permanent space post in our celestial body as is not only essential for our own survival but also it makes possible to burn the rocket fuel used in the space aircraft.
Scientist from NASA have just tested components of a oxygen generator that will produce the element from the silicon dioxide and metal oxides contained in the lunar soil to make sure it works in lunar gravity environment (about 6 times weaker than the one in Earth). For this they have used "Vomit Comet", a fixed wing plane specially designed to briefly provide a micro gravity environment.
