Why building on the moon is harder than it sounds?
NASA is planning a permanent Moon base by the 2030s, and building it means solving problems no construction team on Earth has ever faced: zero atmosphere, moonquakes, temperature swings that would destroy anything we build here, and the brutal economics of shipping every material 240,000 miles. Jon, TK, and Kanav sit down with Kenny Cheung, a research scientist at NASA Ames and principal investigator on the ARMADAS project, to break down how NASA is thinking about foundational infrastructure, materials strategy, and robotics for lunar construction, and where that thinking eventually shows up…
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