Interlune wins $6.9M NASA contract to create system to extract helium-3 and hydrogen from moon dirt

Interlune test engineer Alex Lewandowski and mechanical engineer Jessica Wu check test equipment for the mass spectrometer system in the Regolith Lab at the company’s Seattle headquarters. (Interlune Photo) NASA has awarded a $6.9 million contract to Seattle-based Interlune for the development of a system that can extract gases such as helium-3 and hydrogen from lunar soil and rocks. The system will be developed and tested on Earth under the terms of an 18-month Small Business Innovation Researc