The aerospace company just completed a crucial test on Earth of technology to generate oxygen on the moon. Sierra Space is gearing up for life off-planet. The Louisville, Colorado-based aerospace company successfully extracted oxygen from simulated lunar soil in a vacuum environment during testing at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Texas.

American space exploration company Sierra Space announced it reached a point where it can fly an oxygen extractor to the Moon for testing

Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth®, announced today the company’s proprietary Carbothermal Oxygen Production Reactor has successfully completed thermal vacuum testing at NASA’s Johnson Space Center,