Method of Making Oxygen from Water in Zero Gravity Raises Hope for Long-Distance Space Travel
One of the main challenges with long-distance space flight is transporting enough oxygen for astronauts to breathe and enough fuel to power complex electronics
By Charles W. Dunnill, The Conversation US on July 10, 2018
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.
Space agencies and private companies already have advanced plans to send humans to Mars in the next few years –ultimately colonising it. And with a growing number of discoveries of Earth-like planets around nearby stars, long-distance space travel has never seemed more exciting.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/method-of-making-oxygen-from-water-in-zero-gravity-raises-hope-for-long-distance-space-travel/
