{"id":144030,"date":"2022-08-15T20:09:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/building-on-the-moon-and-mars-youll-need-extraterrestrial-cement-for-that"},"modified":"2022-08-15T20:09:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T01:09:40","slug":"building-on-the-moon-and-mars-youll-need-extraterrestrial-cement-for-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/building-on-the-moon-and-mars-youll-need-extraterrestrial-cement-for-that","title":{"rendered":"Building on the moon and Mars? You\u2019ll need extraterrestrial cement for that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/building-on-the-moon-and-mars-youll-need-extraterrestrial-cement-for-that.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn\u2019t currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads.<\/p>\n<p>So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to fit in your carry-on and there\u2019s no Home Depot in outer space?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we\u2019re going to live and work on another planet like Mars or the moon, we need to make concrete. But we can\u2019t take bags of concrete with us\u2014we need to use local resources,\u201d said Norman Wagner, Unidel Robert L. Pigford Chair of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Delaware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustained space exploration will require infrastructure that doesn\u2019t currently exist: buildings, housing, rocket landing pads. So, where do you turn for construction materials when they are too big to fit in your carry-on and there\u2019s no Home Depot in outer space? \u201cIf we\u2019re going to live and work on another planet like Mars or the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,38,15,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-engineering","category-habitats","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144030","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\/676"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}