In space, no one can hear a pipeline leak hiss.
NASA is considering whether to use an oxygen pipeline to efficiently transport oxygen to various locations around the lunar south pole for itsIt is doing so after Peter Curreri, Chief Science Officer at Lunar Resources Inc., detailed problems with NASA's existing plans for transporting oxygen using rovers.Curreri filed a proposal to the space agency's Innovative Advanced Concepts program and he was one of 14 research teams awarded $175,000 in funding to develop their concepts.
That ice will form a crucial part of NASA's plans to establish a permanent human presence on the moon, as it can be extracted and converted into drinking water and oxygen that can be used for breathing as well as for rocket fuel.posted on NASA's website, Curreri wrote that the "current funded efforts for in-situ oxygen extraction consist of bottling the oxygen in compressed gas tanks or to liquefy and store it in dewars.
Curreri's lunar pipeline concept, meanwhile, would provide constant access to oxygen for lunar settlers. It would also do this at the same time as drastically cutting costs that would otherwise be associated with transportation. Unlike pipelines on Earth, a leak on the moon wouldn't pollute. Instead, oxygen would simply escape into space as the moon doesn't have an atmosphere.
If NASA does eventually greenlight the LSPOP for its Artemis moon missions, it will be manufactured in segments on the moon before being fitted together into its full length. The pipeline will likely be manufactured out of aluminum, which is abundant in the lunar south pole.
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