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Planetary Radio

Turning Moondust Into Air and Water

Airdate: Monday, May 5, 2008
Running Time: 00:28:52
Listen: Windows Media | MP3

NASA is learning how future Moon colonists will mine and refine lunar regolith, turning it into the oxygen and water they'll need to survive without constant resupply by Earth. Gerry Sanders heads the In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) project. Bill Nye the Science Guy invites everyone to a space town hall in Atlanta. Emily Lakdawalla strolls the back side of the Moon. Can you record a hit version of Random Space Fact? It might win you a Planetary Radio t-shirt from Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan. Listen to What's Up for details. They have a new space trivia contest, as well.

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Guests

• Gerry Sanders, NASA's In Situ Resource Utilization Project

Related Information

• 2007 ISRU Presentation (PDF)
• A 2006 Critique of ISRU in The Space Review
• NASA's In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) Project
• Send Your Name to the Moon