Astronauts on the International Space Station need a sustainable supply of oxygen Shutterstock/Andrei Armiagov
Missions to the moon or Mars could get more sustainable life support from a chemical reaction that turns the carbon dioxide exhaled by astronauts into carbon nanotubes and water – which is then converted into fresh oxygen.
In initial experiments, the new method proved more efficient than the existing system used to recycle CO2 into oxygen on the International Space Station (ISS).
Zhaosheng Li at Nanjing University in China and…
