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NASA seeks oxygen source on moon
Wednesday, May 25, 2005 Posted: 8:19 AM EDT (1219 GMT)
Buzz Aldrin on the moon in 1969. The prospects of a permanent lunar colony could depend on extracting oxygen from the moon's surface.
(CNN) -- NASA has offered a $250,000 prize to any scientist who discovers a way of extracting breathable oxygen from moondust.
The competition is the latest in NASA's "Centennial Challenges" series, which aims to stimulate the development of technologies useful to space exploration.
To claim the MoonROx prize, scientists must develop and demonstrate hardware capable of extracting at least five kilograms of breathable oxygen from a simulated lunar soil made from volcanic ash in an eight-hour period.
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