Soon we will start building in space and on the moon and Mars. What will our bases and space stations look like? What will they be made of? It will be hard to make plastics on the moon, but aluminium is very common and it will be simple to make concrete from moon dust. Water and iron are easy to find on asteroids. Will future space stations be made entirely of iron? Or ice?
This week we will try to imagine how future space locations will look when they are built and maintained from the local resources: ISRU (in-situ resource utilization). They may look very different from the ones we see in science fiction. Would you rather live in a metal base or an ice base?
What materials will we always need from Earth? And what materials will people in space send back to Earth? Discover the silk road of the future with us.
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