While ICON is most well-known for its work building ... "If you tried to plan a lunar settlement or a moon base and you had to bring everything with you, every time you wanted to build a new ...

An Austin company will play a key role as NASA aims to return to the moon and establish a base camp on the lunar surface. Icon, the Austin-based construction company that uses giant 3D printers to ...

"ICON’s Olympus system is intended to be a ... of infrastructure necessary for a lunar outpost and ultimately a moon base ... launch and landing pads, roadways, habitats, you name it, all ...

launchpads and homes as part of a lunar base. Above: NASA has chosen ICON for phase III of Project Olympus. Top image: A 3D printer will be placed on the moon. Courtesy of ICON/BIG-Bjarke Ingels ...

The goal is for ICON to build these lunar structures using local material ... “If you tried to plan a lunar settlement or a moon base and you had to bring everything with you, every time you wanted to ...

AUSTIN: A Texas-based company that aims to 3D-print future moon and Mars bases received $57 million from NASA this week. Austin-based ICON received the five-year contract to build out construction ...

A Texas company is creating a 3D printer that could build roadways, landing pads and habitats on the moon. Austin-based ICON is developing a laser system that would melt the moon’s soil to ...

Pop icon Katy Perry joined five other civilian ... assumes that there will be installations, like bases or mining operations, on the moon. Contrary to the free access principle, the treaty ...

If astronauts on the moon are to avoid harmful radiation, long-term lunar bases will need to be shielded by 2 to 3 metres of regolith – the moon’s surface layer of rock and dust. Receive a ...

China, Russia May Build Nuclear Plant on Moon to Power Lunar Station ... the groundwork for constructing a permanent, manned lunar base. In a presentation in Shanghai, the 2028 mission's Chief ...