The collaboration between NASA and ICON Technology Inc. focuses on leveraging lunar soil to construct habitats on the moon, essential for NASA’s Artemis program. With the high cost of transporting materials from Earth, understanding the variable composition of lunar soil becomes critical for developing construction technologies that utilize in-situ resources. This partnership aims to establish a sustainable human presence on the moon by creating a library of soil compositions for optimizing construction processes, highlighting the importance of adapting building techniques to extraterrestrial environments.

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