{"id":155522,"date":"2023-01-15T12:24:37","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/texas-based-3d-printing-company-teaming-up-with-nasa-to-put-buildings-on-the-moon"},"modified":"2023-01-15T12:24:37","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T18:24:37","slug":"texas-based-3d-printing-company-teaming-up-with-nasa-to-put-buildings-on-the-moon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/texas-based-3d-printing-company-teaming-up-with-nasa-to-put-buildings-on-the-moon","title":{"rendered":"Texas-based 3D printing company teaming up with NASA to put buildings on the moon"},"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\/_jvGCDsfrFQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Through a $57 million contract with NASA, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iconbuild.com\/newsroom\/icon-to-develop-lunar-surface-construction-system-with-57-2-million-nasa-award\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ICON<\/a>, a company out of Austin, is working to do just that. ICON wants to put a broad spectrum of infrastructure on the moon, which isn\u2019t the easiest place to build.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, you need to be able to protect the astronauts from the lunar environment which is really a nasty place to live and work. Vacuumed environment, extreme temperature swings, radiation environment, micro-meteoroids, dust protection,\u201d Clinton said. \u201cTo produce things like landing pads and roads and blast shields and shelters and habitats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clinton says ICON will now work to build a 3D printing robotic arm that will be sent to the moon to do the construction but can be controlled from Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Through a $57 million contract with NASA, ICON, a company out of Austin, is working to do just that. ICON wants to put a broad spectrum of infrastructure on the moon, which isn\u2019t the easiest place to build. \u201cFirst of all, you need to be able to protect the astronauts from the lunar environment which [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,15,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155522","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155522\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}