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NASA looks to advance 3D printing construction systems for the Moon and Mars – Pattaya Mail

The process of building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon will likely look different than the common construction site on Earth. Excavation robots, …

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ICON will work with NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, under the Moon to Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies (MMPACT) project to test lunar soil simulant with various processing and printing technologies.
The process of building landing pads, habitats, and roads on the Moon will likely look different than the common construction site on Earth. Excavation robots, for one, will need to be lightweight yet capable of digging in reduced gravity. A large-scale …

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