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Science
James King

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: Moonmaker scientists to use moondust and 3d printers to build lunar settlements - The Untold Story

Space scientists are planning to turn lunar dust into the raw material for 3D printers to construct settlements and landing pads on the Moon.

The project – being carried out by scientists from the Hannover Laser Center (LZH) and the Berlin Technical University (TU Berlin), located in Germany – has already been tried successfully on Earth.

Now experts from the Moonrise project plan to repeat the experiment with a trip to the Moon’s surface.

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