Rahul Rao is a graduate of New York University's SHERP and a freelance science writer, regularly covering physics, space, and infrastructure. His work has appeared in Gizmodo, Popular Science, Inverse, IEEE Spectrum, and Continuum. He enjoys riding trains for fun, and he has seen every surviving episode of Doctor Who.
Even though the day when humans live and work on the moon is still in the unidentified future, NASA is actively planning for how to get us there. . This request will, in theory, allow industry and researchers to provide details on technologies that enable future moon-dwellers to produce, capture, and store breathable oxygen from lunar soil. NASA hopes to use the information it gathers to develop a technology demo., is known as in-situ resource utilization, or ISRU.
Before actually having astronauts try making oxygen for themselves, however, NASA plans to showcase the tech to do so as part of a demonstration it calls the Lunar Infrastructure Foundational Technologies . In-situ resource utilization, turning readily available materials on other worlds into resources like oxygen, water, and metal, is one of the research areas NASA supports via its.
He holds a masters degree in science writing from New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program and earned a bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University, where he studied English and physics.
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