China Develops Lunar Bricks Designed to Be Used on the Moon

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Chinese scientists recently unveiled an innovative brick type that they hope will be used to build the world’s first base and inhabitable houses on the surface of the moon in the near future.

It’s no secret that China has big plans when it comes to moon colonization. Earlier this year, it became the first country to land a probe on the dark side of the moon and bring it back with valuable soil samples, and putting people on the moon appears to be the next logical step. However, the Asian giant is already planning for the day when we’ll be able to build bases and other buildings on the Earth’s natural satellite, and to that end, it has developed an ingenious type of brick designed to withstand both physical pressure and high levels of radiation from the sun. The so-called “moon soil bricks” will be sent to the moon to be tested until the end of next year.

 

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The appearance of those bricks reminds me of the heat tiles on the Shuttle.  Interesting study.

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Indian researchers has also created space bricks for building structures on the lunar surface.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/building-on-moon-scientists-in-iisc-boost-strength-of-space-bricks/articleshow/110449055.cms

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The researchers, led by associate professor Aloke Kumar and assistant professor Koushik Vishwanathan, have developed a method of manufacturing robust building materials from LSS (lunar soil simulants) that could enable future construction of habitats and infrastructure on the Moon.

"Our findings demonstrate the feasibility of harvesting lunar resources to produce robust construction materials, reducing the massive costs of transporting all materials from Earth.This is a significant step towards realising sustainable extraterrestrial settlements," Koushik said.

 

Such research work would prove fruitful in the event of an asteroid strike or nuclear holocaust, creating alternative habitations for the rest of surviving humanity in the moon, mars and other natural satellites as well as large space stations. These can function as launch pads to other larger inhabitable or easily terraformed worlds as well in the future outside the solar system.