There isn’t any oxygen in space, and yet one Israeli startup has found a way around that problem, developing a technology that can produce oxygen from lunar soil. The project, Helios, was recently granted funding from the Israeli Space Agency and the Ministry of Energy to develop a system that will be launched in two space missions over the next three years.
Helios technology will produce oxygen from the lunar surface through a soil-fed reactor in addition to other various metals. The process does not require consumable materials from Earth, and can enable mankind to establish actual colonies that live off the land in permanent bases far from Earth.