• Question: can humans make oxygen?

    Asked by jayson to Carol on 25 Jun 2012.
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      Carol White answered on 25 Jun 2012:

      YES!

      I didn’t believe it at first, but apparently some scientists have managed to get oxygen out of a moon rock! This would be really useful if we ever wanted to set up a human community on the moon, as the lack of oxygen is a huge problem there.

      NASA have offered $1million to first team of scientists that can get 5kg of oxygen from a moon rock in under 8 hours… no-one has managed that yet though!

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