Abstract: This Summer I participated in two projects at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The projects focus on the NASA’s Deep Space Gateway applications for future Mars travel. All of these projects use recycling technology to use resources found on Earth and on other planets for fuel and other environmental applications. The first project I took the lead on is “Plasma Arc Gasification.†Plasma is a high temperature and very efficient way to process waste to create usable byproduct…