There are limited resources on extraterrestrial bodies and current launch vehicles can only send finite resources on deep space missions. Transporting resources needed for deep space missions is extremely expensive; at tens of thousands of dollars per pound launched. In order to sustain life and establish outposts on other celestial bodies, it is necessary to find a way to utilize the resources that are readily available in these environments. This process is called In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU), which is comprised of searching for, collecting, processing, and storing materials found on other celestial bodies and using them for construction, science applications, propulsion, and other life sustaining purposes. The processing and use of regolith, which is a loose rocky material found on the surface of bodies like the Moon or Mars, is the main focus of ISRU work done in Swamp Works in the Engineering Development Lab at Kennedy Space Center (KSC). The research Swamp Works has done in regolith applications ranges from construction and infrastructure to propellant production to storage of oxygen and water.


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    Title :

    KSC Intern Narrative Report


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    Publication date :

    2019-08-02


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

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    Language :

    English




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