Ever since President Donald Trump directed NASA to get boots on the moon by 2024, the agency and its partners have been hard at work trying to make it happen. Moon dirt is a great building material and there’s water in the form of ice at the south pole that can be turned into rocket fuel. Earlier this year, a …
The main ingredient in “lunar concrete” would be a powdery soil found on the moon’s surface known as lunar regolith. The European Space Agency said Friday that human urine could one day become a useful ingredient in making concrete to build on the moon. “Thanks to future lunar inhabitants, the 1.5 litres of liquid waste a person generates each day …