Kirill Emelyanov, a student at Institute No. 11 "Materials Science and Technology of Materials" of the Moscow Aviation Institute, has developed a project that will enable the construction of residential and technical facilities on the Moon. This was reported by the university's press service. According to the developer's idea, the building material can be manufactured directly on the Earth's satellite using local resources—fine-grained lunar soil (regolith). This will minimize energy and financial costs. To create such a material, the student proposed mixing regolith with powder made of polymer particles. The resulting mixture is sintered with a laser, producing a material that is as strong as concrete, from which bricks and building blocks can be formed. Since it is not possible to conduct experiments with real regolith on Earth, the project author used a lunar soil simulant—a mixture of basalt particles. "Imagine three balls glued together—these are large basalt particles. To obtain a strong building material, our task is to fill the voids formed between the balls. For this, we introduce a mixture of smaller basalt particles. To this mixture, with already minimal voids, we add polymer powder, which fills the remaining space. After mechanical mixing, we press the plates at a temperature of 240-250 degrees Celsius under a pressure of 210 MPa in a closed mold," said Kirill Emelyanov. "Thus, we obtain on Earth an analog of our space material. This allows us to start experimenting with the construction of lunar infrastructure on our planet, to work out all the technical details before transitioning to the actual mission." In developing the project, the student considered the effects of radiation, ultraviolet radiation, and temperature fluctuations on the Earth's satellite. Currently, Kirill Emelyanov is working on selecting the best polymer and the optimal size of lunar soil particles to obtain the most durable construction material resistant to space conditions.