The scientists call it Lunar Regolith. I call it Moon dirt. That's what it is essentially. Granted the properties are different: the material itself is of a finer consistency, soft and powdery it clings to everything, more like dust; static electricity is also a problem, generated by moving the powdered dust-dirt.
The fifth in a series of NASA Centennial Challenges , the Regolith Excavation Challenge is worth $250,00 to the successful player. NASA hopes this will help them find the simplest and best way to build bases and habitable buildings with the stuff.
These guys are much like the Romans, one of the first to develop concrete and therefore able to build modern, grand and elaborate structures quickly and easily, many of which can still be seen today, two-thousand years later.
Can't wait to see who wins...find out in late 2006 or early 2007
NASA eyes establishing orbiting lunar outpost
12 years ago
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