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Off-World Construction

Engineering work aimed at building habitats and infrastructure on the Moon, Mars and other bodies, usually by processing local rock and dust rather than shipping finished structures from Earth.

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Yeast glue and gelatin freeze-dry into a Mars building material as strong as low-grade concrete

Jishen Qiu's team let Mars-like cold and vacuum do the hardening, printing cork-sized domes with the compressive strength of low-grade concrete. The imported gelatin and yeast are what the method still costs.

Publishers:discovermagazine.comphys.org

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