This will be the new moon base that NASA plans to build by 2030

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has started set new goals for the end of the next decadeIt will mainly try to have astronauts on the moon by 2024.

As if it wasn’t enough By 2030, it hopes to have the first lunar base built on an alien surface, according to your September 2020 General Moon Exploration Program schedule.

But in order to build a structure that will remain on the Moon, it is necessary to create a special material that will allow the creation of landing platforms, bases and even roads on the surface of the Moon.

Looking for these materialsNASA began partnering with construction technology company ICON, which is in the early research and development career of space systems.

The answer they’ve found is to use moon dust to make the material on 3D printers. This would be similar to concrete, Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO told CNN. The program proposing this initiative is part of the Space Technology Mission Directorate and is on short notice “They will allow us to expand building capabilities to other worlds when the time comes”, emphasizes Niki Werkheiser, director of the program.

Moon dust consists of minerals and glass shards that have formed over millions of years. On other missions to the moon, they found that it tended to be sharp, abrasive, and very tacky.

ICON is a company dedicated to building homes in Mexico and Texas since 2018. Hence, it is believed that being successful in creating the lunar base “will provide the necessary breakthroughs to solve the housing challenges we face in this world”, destaco Ballard.

The construction project is known as’ From the Moon to Mars. Autonomous Planetary Construction Technologies ”, which also includes the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

The associate director of Marshall’s Office of Science and Technology noted this “We want to increase the level of preparation of the technology and the test systems to demonstrate that it would be feasible to develop a large-scale 3D printer that could build infrastructure on the Moon or Mars. “

The statement also announced that there is another agency in the United States interested in the technology to apply it on Earth. ICON has a government contract for research and innovation for small businesses dual-use to expand 3D printing of habitable and viable structures.

“By joining forces and sharing costs between multiple government agencies, we can accelerate the development schedule and realize core capabilities in which we have a common interest,” said Werkheiser.

To explore the possibilities of 3D printing, two architecture studios called Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) and Space Exploration Architecture (SEArch +) were used.

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