How does the ISS get more oxygen? Do they have a device that can create more, or do they simply send shipments of O2?

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How does the ISS get more oxygen? Do they have a device that can create more, or do they simply send shipments of O2?

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As an addendum, the Perseverance rover is carrying a device to turn CO2 back into oxygen, in part as a potential upgrade for the ISS.

So in the future there may be a closed system. But right now, the water option is the simplest (produces oxygen to breathe and the hydrogen is used to process theC O2)

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