{"id":178475,"date":"2023-12-17T00:23:54","date_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-gives-blue-origin-35-million-to-turn-moon-dust-into-solar-cells"},"modified":"2023-12-17T00:23:54","modified_gmt":"2023-12-17T06:23:54","slug":"nasa-gives-blue-origin-35-million-to-turn-moon-dust-into-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/nasa-gives-blue-origin-35-million-to-turn-moon-dust-into-solar-cells","title":{"rendered":"NASA gives Blue Origin $35 million to turn moon dust into solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nasa-gives-blue-origin-35-million-to-turn-moon-dust-into-solar-cells2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASA has awarded Blue Origin a $35 million contract to further develop a technology that creates solar cells out of lunar regolith \u2014 the dust and crushed rock blanketing the moon\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[W]e\u2019re inspired and humbled to receive this investment from NASA to advance our innovation,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blueorigin.com\/news\/blue-origin-awarded-nasa-partnership-to-turn-lunar-regolith-into-solar-power-systems-on-the-moon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a> Pat Remias, VP of Blue Origin\u2019s Capabilities Directorate. \u201cFirst we return humans to the moon, then we start to \u2018live off the land.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moon or bust: <\/strong>NASA plans to send astronauts to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/new-spacesuits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">moon<\/a> again as soon as 2025, with the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the lunar surface soon after. For that to work, it\u2019s going to need a way to provide astronauts with a steady supply of everything they need to survive and thrive, from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/space-food\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">food<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/lunar-water\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">water<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/moon-oxygen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">oxygen<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freethink.com\/space\/moonbase\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">electricity<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA has awarded Blue Origin a $35 million contract to further develop a technology that creates solar cells out of lunar regolith \u2014 the dust and crushed rock blanketing the moon\u2019s surface. \u201c[W]e\u2019re inspired and humbled to receive this investment from NASA to advance our innovation,\u201d said Pat Remias, VP of Blue Origin\u2019s Capabilities Directorate. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,1514,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-space-travel","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178475","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}