Meet Starpath, a startup that wants to make it possible for you to live on Mars one day.
Starpath is building robots that it hopes will be able to autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon. That liquid oxygen can then be used to develop fuel for spacecrafts, which could make it possible for humans to travel farther through space than they have thus far.
This plan is pretty bold — no government or company has ever harvested water ice from the moon. But the company just raised $12 million in seed funding, plus an $800,000 grant from NASA, to help its cause.
As founder Saurav Shroff told TechCrunch, “Life can be multiplanetary in a very short period of time. If you make one thousand tons of liquid oxygen on the moon, your path to making a million-person city on Mars is hard, but it’s now possible.”