How NASA Plans to Melt the Moon—and Build on Mars

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The team’s first off-planet project is tentatively scheduled for late 2027.

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Icon's Mars Dune Alpha is the first structure built by Icon with a 3D printed roof.

A Tennessee-based company wants to start using proteins as an alternative t first ent.

They plan to bui NASA tructures with lunar regolith that’s held together with bovine proteins.

They tested their material aboard the Interna first l Space Station last summer.

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