Meet Starpath, a startup that aims to make life on Mars possible one day.
Starpath is developing a robot that can autonomously mine liquid oxygen from the moon, which could be used to develop fuel for spacecraft, potentially allowing humans to travel farther into space than ever before.
The plan is pretty bold — no government or company has ever harvested water ice from the moon before — but the company has raised $12 million in seed funding to back its efforts, plus an $800,000 grant from NASA.
Founder Saurav Shroff told TechCrunch: “Life can spread to multiple planets in a very short space of time. If you can make 1,000 tonnes of liquid oxygen on the Moon, building a city of a million people on Mars is difficult, but now it's possible.”