Affordable housing in outer space: Scientists develop cosmic concrete from space dust and astronaut blood

ScienceDaily
Sep 13, 2021, 1:57 pm695 ptsHotTop
Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds -- making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive. Scientists have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along…

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