{"id":3926122,"date":"2026-05-25T09:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-material-could-help-nasa-melt-moon-rocks-harness-lunar-resources\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:03:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T14:03:40","slug":"new-material-could-help-nasa-melt-moon-rocks-harness-lunar-resources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/new-material-could-help-nasa-melt-moon-rocks-harness-lunar-resources\/","title":{"rendered":"New material could help NASA melt moon rocks, harness lunar resources"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A material recently discovered and tested at NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland could help astronauts pack lighter for future missions to the moon. NASA is researching ways explorers could &#8220;live off the land&#8221; by harnessing lunar resources, including melting moon rocks to extract metals for building infrastructure and oxygen for fuel and life support.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-05-material-nasa-moon-harness-lunar.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A material recently discovered and tested at NASA&#8217;s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland could help astronauts pack lighter for future missions to the moon. NASA is researching ways explorers could &#8220;live off the land&#8221; by harnessing lunar resources, including melting moon rocks to extract metals for building infrastructure and oxygen for fuel and life support. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3926122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}