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

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has begun to do so set new goals for the end of the next decadeMainly, it will look to have astronauts on the moon until at least 2024.

As if that wasn’t enough By 2030, it hopes to have its first monthly base built on an extraterrestrial surface., according to your schedule from your general September 2020 monthly exploration schedule.

But in order to build a structure that remains on the moon, it is necessary to create a special material with which to create landing platforms, bases and even roads on the lunar surface.

Looking for these materials, NASA began working with construction technology company ICON, which is at the beginning of its career of research and development of space construction systems.

The answer they found was to use moond dust to create the material on the 3D printers. This would be similar to concrete, said Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO of CNN. The program proposed by this initiative is part of the Directorate of Space Technology Mission and short-term “They will help us make sure we can expand our construction capabilities to other worlds when the time comes.”, said Niki Werkheiser, program executive.

The monthly dust is made up of minerals and shards of glass that have been created over millions of years. In other missions to the moon, they have found that it tends to be sharp, abrasive and very sticky.

ICON is a company dedicated to building houses in Mexico and Texas since 2018. Therefore, consider that to succeed in creating the monthly base “will provide the necessary progress to solve the housing challenges we face in this world”, highlight Ballard.

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

The associate director of Marshall’s Office of Science and Technology mentioned that “We want to increase the level of technology training and testing 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 said that there is another agency in the United States that is interested in the technology to apply it on Earth. ICON has a government contract in the field of small business research and innovation dual-use to expand 3D printing of habitable and viable structures.

“Joining forces and sharing costs between multiple government agencies allows us to accelerate the development agenda and implement core capabilities in which we have a common interest,” Werkheiser said.

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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