Kennedy Space Center trash recycling project launching on Blue Origin rocket

[Elderberry]

Click Orlando by Emilee Speck 12/9/2019

OSCAR project could turn trash into usable supplies for deep-space missions

Blue Origin will launch a Kennedy Space Center-based trash recycling project, known as OSCAR, on Tuesday to the edge of space from the company’s West Texas launch site.

The reusable New Shepard rocket and its capsule are slated for a 9:30 a.m. ET (8:30 a.m. CT) liftoff, however, Blue Origin officials say weather conditions may delay the launch time.

The launch marks the 9th commercial payload for New Shepard and it will be flying the company’s 100th customer payload inside the space capsule.

One of those payloads will be the Orbital Syngas/Commodity Augmentation Reactor, or OSCAR, project developed by Dr. Annie Meier and others at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.

The technology behind OSCAR could help deep space exploration, by transforming trash into necessary supplies including methane, according to Meier.

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[Joe Wooten]

My first thought on reading the headline was that Bezos was going to take Kennedy center trash and scatter it all over West Texas from 60 miles up......