This structure was made using natural materials found on Mars. It was then tested at the NASA - National Aeronautics and Space Administration 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, a contest to invent a viable housing solution for potential future residents of the red planet.
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00:00Oh, oh, hang on, here we go, wow, this thing is pretty, it's holding up pretty well.
00:30I could see the treads lifting up, and it wasn't until about, let's say, two minutes
00:46into that run that we heard some cracking at the top.
00:50That's all we got was about one foot of structural damage up at the top, and then otherwise it
00:56looks fine.
00:57I was expecting the whole thing to kind of explode, so we're really stoked right now.
01:11The material for this building is reusable, so we can grind this up and process it, clean
01:19it, and then basically put it through our system again and reprint it in another form.
01:24And so we're going to print a structure that anyone can live in on Earth.
01:27It's going to be basically an Airbnb type situation.
01:41I think there are a number of us in this room who have, for years, always remembered where
01:46we were when man first stepped on the moon.
01:50Thanks to these teams, and thanks to the efforts of everybody.
01:53One day we may also be able to say, we were there, we saw when they were first building
02:00the structures that allowed us to put a man and a woman on Mars.