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For humans to live, work, and conduct various activities on the moon, strategies are needed to deal with all the hazards—not the least of which is the lunar regolith (or "moondust"). As the ...

Read the full story on Modern Car Collector A Pagani Utopia painted in an ultra-exclusive “Moondust” finish has been spotted for the first time, hinting at the imminent delivery of one of the most ...

One dust-cloud solution that the researchers examined would involve delivering moondust to a way station. It would be situated at a special orbital location called the Lagrange L1 point ...

Unlike soil on Earth, lunar regolith, or rock and dust, lacks the necessary nutrients and structural integrity to support any growing flora. Not only that, said Atkin, moondust is chockfull of heavy ...

I'm talking about something that is essentially a machine designed to extract oxygen from moondust (they call it lunar regolith). Oxygen is one of the most valuable resources in space exploration ...

Here’s how it works. NASA has requested the safe return of moondust and cockroach samples that were scheduled to be sold in a private auction that ended June 23. In a letter dated June 15 ...

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This project isn’t just for giggles, though it is pretty fun. It’s a proof of concept to show how astronauts could use moondust to build lunar structures. Consider the sheer amount of energy ...