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NASA is gearing up to create an out-of-this-world Airbnb.
The US space agency has awarded a construction technology company $60 million to build a house on the moon by 2040, which will be intended not only for astronauts, but also for ordinary civilians.
The plan is to launch a giant 3D printer to the moon and use lunar concrete made from rocks, metal fragments and dust to layer the structure on the surface.
NASA is also working with universities and private companies to build doors, tiles and furniture for the Moon House.
The agenda includes creating a foundation on Mars for space fair heroes who will one day live on the red planet.
Plans are still in the very early stages, and only renderings are available from 2022 to paint a picture of what the house could look like – the idea could change over the next decade.
Plans are still in the very early stages, with renderings only available as of 2022 to paint a picture of what the house could look like, and the idea may change over the next decade.
NASA is not sharing how much it will charge civilians for their stay in the Moon House.
Austin-based ICON, which received a NASA contract in 2022, is using its 3D printing expertise on Earth, building luxury homes layer by layer using its system, The Vulcan.
The technique places a mixture of cement, sand and water as threads.
Filament is ink that comes out of the printer like thick ribbons stacked on top of each other.
All components of the house – for example, walls and roof – are printed separately and then put together.
The idea is to send a 3D printer to the moon, which will cover the structure with lunar concrete
The technique places a mixture of cement, sand and water as threads. The filament is ink that comes out of the printer like thick ribbons stacked on top of each other
ICON shared that infrastructure must better protect heat, radiation and micrometeorites
The printer can create properties in less than 48 hours.
ICON has been in the 3D printing business since 2018 and has built over 100 homes in North Austin.
Homes built this way have become increasingly popular because they are quick to build, with developers saying they could solve America’s housing crisis.
It seems that 3D printed houses could be the next stage in its lunar mission.
Raymond Clinton, 71, deputy director of the Office of Science and Technology at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, said: New York times He doesn’t see ordinary Americans living on the moon in his lifetime, but hopefully he will for future generations.
“I wish I could be there to see it,” he told the New York Times.
NASA is also working with universities and private companies to build doors, tiles and furniture for the Moon House.
A million-dollar neighborhood of 3D-printed homes by ICON has gone up for sale in the middle of the West Texas desert
“When we talk about sustainable human presence, to me that means you have a lunar settlement and you have people living and working on the moon continuously.
“What this could be is up to the imagination of entrepreneurs.”
ICON shared that infrastructure It should better protect the heat, radiation and small meteorite.
NASA will first have to prepare rocket landing pads to carry the 3D printer to the moon’s surface.
These pads will be away from the habitat to mitigate dust rising during landing and take-off.
“To change the paradigm of space exploration from ‘there and back again’ to ‘there to stay,’ we will need robust, flexible and capable systems at scale that can use the local resources of the Moon and other planetary bodies,” said Jason Ballard, co-founder and CEO of ICON.
ICON plans to test its printer at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center next February to see how it handles the vacuum conditions and radiation levels of space.
But it will all stop when NASA prepares landing pads on the moon.
NASA is scheduled to launch the second stage of the Artemis mission in 2024, which will send astronauts around the moon.
Then, in 2025 or 2026, the space agency will return humans to the Moon on the Artemis 3 mission.
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