{"id":120787,"date":"2021-03-22T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/icon-and-nasa-bring-lunar-infrastructure-closer-with-worlds-first-3d-printed-rocket-pad"},"modified":"2021-03-22T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T18:22:18","slug":"icon-and-nasa-bring-lunar-infrastructure-closer-with-worlds-first-3d-printed-rocket-pad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/icon-and-nasa-bring-lunar-infrastructure-closer-with-worlds-first-3d-printed-rocket-pad","title":{"rendered":"ICON and NASA bring lunar infrastructure closer with world\u2019s first 3D printed rocket pad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cN7v2v27kmU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Texas-based construction company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconbuild.com\/\">ICON<\/a> has delivered what it hails as the \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d 3D printed lunar launch and landing pad to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">NASA<\/a>, bringing its goal of creating an off-world construction system for the moon a step closer.<\/p>\n<p>Working with a team of students from 10 colleges and universities across the US, ICON used its proprietary technology to 3D print a reusable landing pad using materials found on the moon. The partners recently conducted a static fire test of the rocket pad with a rocket motor at Camp Swift, a Texas Military Department location just outside of Austin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first milestone on the journey to making off-world construction a reality, which will allow humanity to stay \u2013 not just visit the stars,\u201d said Michael McDaniel, Head of Design at ICON.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas-based construction company ICON has delivered what it hails as the \u201cworld\u2019s first\u201d 3D printed lunar launch and landing pad to NASA, bringing its goal of creating an off-world construction system for the moon a step closer. Working with a team of students from 10 colleges and universities across the US, ICON used its proprietary [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}