{"id":115659,"date":"2020-11-09T10:22:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/uk-firm-to-turn-moon-rock-into-oxygen-and-building-materials"},"modified":"2020-11-09T10:22:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T18:22:32","slug":"uk-firm-to-turn-moon-rock-into-oxygen-and-building-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/uk-firm-to-turn-moon-rock-into-oxygen-and-building-materials","title":{"rendered":"UK firm to turn moon rock into oxygen and building materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/uk-firm-to-turn-moon-rock-into-oxygen-and-building-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnything you take from Earth to the moon is an added weight that you don\u2019t want to carry, so if you can make these materials in situ it saves you a lot of time, effort and money,\u201d said Ian Mellor, the managing director of Metalysis, which is based in Sheffield.<\/p>\n<p>Analyses of rocks brought back from the moon reveal that oxygen makes up about 45% of the material by weight. The remainder is largely iron, aluminium and silicon. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0032063319301758\">work published this year<\/a>, scientists at Metalysis and the University of Glasgow found they could extract 96% of the oxygen from simulated lunar soil, leaving useful metal alloy powders behind.<\/p>\n<p>NASA and other space agencies are in advanced preparations to return to the moon, this time to establish a permanent lunar base, or \u201cmoon village\u201d where nations will operate alongside private companies on critical technologies such as life support, habitat construction, energy generation and food and materials production.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAnything you take from Earth to the moon is an added weight that you don\u2019t want to carry, so if you can make these materials in situ it saves you a lot of time, effort and money,\u201d said Ian Mellor, the managing director of Metalysis, which is based in Sheffield. Analyses of rocks brought back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}