Name: Turning moon dust into water: Lingohack
Uploaded: 2020-03-23T05:36:59.000Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s
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one of the first things Neil Armstrong did after stepping onto the moon was collect some soil.

50 years later, Here it is at the Open University in Milton Keynes.

Has been testing Apollo Moon Rock for decades.

In their latest experiment, PhD student Hannah Sergeant is turning lunar dust in tow.

Water water is one of the most critical resource is we need for space exploration not just for the life support needs of humans, but also to make rocket fuel, hydrogen and oxygen.

It is propellant, so if we can produce that on the surface of the moon, we can support long term space exploration missions and produce the rocket propellant.

We need to perhaps use the moon as a sort of pitstop permissions on the way to Mars in five years time, thanks to a collaboration between the European Space Agency and the Russians are experiment could be happening at the south pole of the moon.

It's one of the coldest places in our solar system.

They'll be heating moon rocks to five times the temperature of your oven, so the oxygen inside reacts with hydrogen.

They brought along making H 20 PhD student Hannah Sergeant is turning lunar dust in tow.

Water not just for the life support needs of humans, but also to make rocket fuel, but also to make rocket fuel, hydrogen and oxygen.

So if we can produce that on the surface of the moon, we can support long term space exploration missions.

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