# Lunar soil could help us make oxygen in space

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/lunar-soil-could-help-us-make-oxygen-in-space/
- Published: 2022-05-10T09:15:11-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Image: The far side of the Moon, photographed by Apollo 16 in 1972. Image credit: NASA. Article by Leto Sapunar. Popular Science – May 5, 2022. A team of scientists in China analyzed moon rocks recently collected by the country’s Chang’e-5 mission—the first moon rocks returned to Earth since the last Apollo mission in the 1970s. Experimenting on the new moon rocks in a lab revealed that they contain materials possibly useful as catalysts to make fuel and oxygen on the moon. […] Click here to view original web page at www.popsci.com