College student creates lego-like bricks from moon dust

So, a University of Arkansas student has found a clever way to turn moon-dust simulant into tiny, connectable building blocks. Cole McCallum and engineer Wan Shou used laser 3D printing to fuse the powder to itself, without adding a binder that would need to be shipped from Earth. Their small cross- and H-shaped prototypes could point toward a practical way to build larger lunar structures from local materials. The bricks are still porous and relatively weak, so more testing is needed, but this is an exciting first step toward construction on the Moon.

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College student creates lego-like bricks from moon dust