This Little-Known Lab Is Changing the Future of Space

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To live on the Moon, we’ll need to do things we’ve never done before and overcome challenges we’ve never faced. Luckily for us, NASA is developing some brand-new technology at Swamp Works.

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Sources:

Correspondence with Swamp Works’s Jason Schuler
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https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13215
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