• About Us
• Press Room
• Resource Library
• Shop
• Contact Us

Creating a better future by exploring other worlds and understanding our own.

• Explore
  • Featured Projects
  • Space Topics
  • Resource Library
  • The Planetary Report
  • For Kids
  • MER Update
• Connect
  • Our Experts
  • Our Members
  • Share Your Story
  • Sign Up for eNews
• Blogs
  • Bill Nye
  • Emily Lakdawalla
  • Bruce Betts
  • Casey Dreier
  • Mat Kaplan
  • Jason Davis
  • Guest Blogs
  • All Blogs
• Multimedia
  • Planetary Radio
  • Video
  • Podcasts
  • Space Images
• Get Involved
  • Be a Space Advocate
  • Volunteer
  • Travel
  • Events
  • Contests
• Become a Member
  • Why Join?
  • Join Today
  • Renew Membership
  • Give Membership
  • Discovery Team
  • New Millennium Committee
  • Planned Giving
  • Corporate Giving
  • Other Ways to Give
• Donate

Turning Moondust Into Air and Water

Air Date: 05/05/2008
Run Time: 0:28:52

Listen to the full show:

Or Download mp3

Guests:

• Gerry Sanders, In Situ Resource Utilization Project, NASA

Topics:

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.

Developed by Firefly Partners