In a quest to find practical solutions to build sustainable structures on the moon, NASA has furthered its partnership with ICON, a construction technologies company based in Austin, Texas. The firm is known for building the first-ever habitable 3D-printed home in the United States in 2018.
The space agency has now awarded a $57.2 million contract to ICON to devise solutions that "could help build infrastructure such as landing pads, habitats, and roads on the lunar surface," according to theWith a series of contracts with private players, NASA aims to supplement its long-term human exploration missions to the moon under the Artemis project.
The newly awarded Phase III of SBIR will now focus on the evolution of ICON's Project Olympus construction system, which aims to utilize the available resources on the lunar and Martian surfaces as building materials for longer missions. "In order to explore other worlds, we need innovative new technologies adapted to those environments and our exploration needs," said Werkheiser.The project by ICON will broadly come under the purview of NASA’s Mars Planetary Autonomous Construction Technologies Project at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, Technologies.A simulated Martian habitat, called Mars Dune Alphs, was recently developed by ICON using advanced 3D printing techniques.
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