Whereas a number of house companies have introduced plans to construct semi-permanent buildings on the Moon, they’re all confronted with the identical problem: Earth-built supplies could be prohibitively troublesome to move to and from the lunar floor. The European Area Company has been experimenting with utilizing regolith — the sand-like materials that covers the Moon’s floor — as a building materials and has accomplished a proof of idea with their LEGO Area Bricks. 3D-printed, the gray bricks use meteorite mud instead of regolith, and whereas they appear a little bit tough, they snap collectively identical to the actual factor, suggesting that related bricks may very well be printed and constructed on the Moon itself, eradicating the necessity for pricey transport of supplies to and from Earth. The ESA Area Bricks are displayed in choose LEGO Retail Shops and the LEGO Home in Billund, Denmark by means of September twentieth.
