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The European Space Agency asked Foster + Partners to design a moon base; they just unveiled their idea for making it out of a local and sustainable material: moon dust. From BD Online:
“3D printing offers a potential means of facilitating lunar settlement with reduced logistics from Earth,” said Scott Hovland of ESA’s human spaceflight team. “The new possibilities this work opens up can then be considered by international space agencies as part of the current development of a common exploration strategy.”
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“As a practice, we are used to designing for extreme climates on Earth and exploiting the environmental benefits of using local, sustainable materials,” said Xavier De Kestelier, a member of Foster’s specialist modelling group. “Our lunar habitation follows a similar logic.”
There’s no mention how they are printing it, what they are mixing the dust with. More at BD ONLINE
This is not the first time we have shown this kind of thing; Behrokh Khoshnevis has proposed using his contour crafting system on the moon.
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