FOR KIDS: Building with moon rocks

FOR KIDS: Building with moon rocks

Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials

By Sid Perkins

Web edition: May 22, 2013

Working on the moon with lunar soil and grit could prove easier, more efficient and less costly than using earthly materials

By Sid Perkins

Web edition: May 22, 2013

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Lunar concrete

Findings by this teenage engineer from Hoschton, Ga., suggest that construction on the moon could be less costly than previously thought.

Credit: Patrick Thornton, SSP

Astronauts will likely colonize the moon one day. Because it costs thousands of dollars to lift a pound of material off of Earth and into orbit, it should prove cheaper to build moon structures from materials already there. And new research by a Georgia teen suggests that concrete made from moon rocks and soil would be stronger than ordinary concrete.

Visit the new Science News for Kids website and read the full story: Building with moon rocks.

Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/350610/title/FOR_KIDS_Building_with_moon_rocks

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