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Six steps to clean lunar living

Scientists design a self-sustaining lunar habitat that would make Al Gore proud.

Tito Estrada Staff writer, CNET News
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Astronauts will probably miss out on the luxurious quarters and gourmet meals planned for space tourists, but moon living may be cushier than expected.

Luna Gaia, a habitat designed by an international team of scientists, engineers and graduate students, provides up to a dozen astronauts with fresh vegetables, fish, spacious rooms and clean drinking water (albeit recycled from their own urine).

Read the full report at Popular Science: "The Green Side of the Moon"