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NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity’s Return to Moon

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NASA Develops Batteries to Power Humanity’s Return to Moon
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5 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater)

Yi Lin, SPEARS testing and research lead at NASA Langley, holds one of the small coin-cell batteries that had just undergone thermal vacuum testing.NASA/Ryan Hill


If you’ve ever had your car start sluggishly, or not at all, on a particularly frigid winter morning, you know standard batteries do not like extreme cold. That’s why NASA researchers are working to develop a battery that could function in the brutal cold

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