Hosts: Marty Carpenter and Greg Skordas

Shoot for the moon, and you might just land a permanent US base there. That’s the hope of NASA, which has enlisted the University of Utah and other schools to innovate a way for astronauts to mine metal from the lunar surface. Graduate metallurgy research Collin Anderson is part of the Utah team, and he joins the show to share why this matters for US-led space travel. 

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