Australian research tackles sustainable living that's off the planet

As NASA plans to return humans to the moon by 2024, an Australian-first centre is studying the sustainable use of resources in space to keep astronauts there for longer. The space sustainability centre at the University of Adelaide will study the potential for growing food in space, along with moon and asteroid mining. Dr Nikhel Gupta , a Physics academic of the University of Melbourne explains the 'Space mining'

NASA space farming video screenshot Source: NASA