NASA taps Texas company for moon construction project

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Austin-based 3D company ICON has been awarded a contract with NASA to develop construction technologies that could put up infrastructures on the surface of the moon.

NASA is planning for long-term human exploration of the moon and needs new technologies to meet the challenges of living and working on a different world.

"In order to explore other worlds, we need innovative new technologies adapted to those environments and our exploration needs," said Niki Werkheiser, director of technology maturation in NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate . "Pushing this development forward with our commercial partners will create the capabilities we need for future missions."

This contract, which is valued at $57.2 million and runs through 2028, is a continuation of ICON’s current Small Business Innovation Research dual-use contract with the U.S. Air Force which is partly funded by NASA. The new contract will support the development of ICON’s Olympus construction system that will use local resources on Mars and the moon to build materials.

ICON has previously printed a 1,700-square-foot simulated Martian habitat that will be used during NASA’s analog mission starting in 2023.

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