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Bezos Says Blue Origin Will One Day Refuel Its Lunar Lander With Ice From the Moon

Saturday June 22, 2019. 09:00 AM , from Slashdot
Earlier this week, Amazon and Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos explained how its spacecraft will eventually be powered with fuel harvested from the moon. CNBC reports: 'We know things about the moon now we didn't know about during the Apollo days,' Bezos said, speaking at the JFK Space Summit in Boston, Massachusetts. One of the things learned since Apollo that Bezos highlighted is that there are deposits of water ice at the bottom of craters on the moon. 'We can harvest that ice and use to make hydrogen and oxygen, which are rocket propellants,' Bezos said.

Blue Origin is developing its 'Blue Moon' lunar lander, which Bezos unveiled last month. Bezos said Blue Moon is powered by a BE-7 engine, which uses hydrogen and oxygen as its two fuel sources. 'The reason we chose those propellants is because... we know one day we'll be refueling that vehicle on the surface of the moon from propellants made on the surface of the moon from that water ice,' Bezos said.

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