Building on the moon: NASA awards Texas company $57 million for lunar construction system

[Admin]

NASA just awarded the Texas-based company ICON $57.2 million for its Project Olympus, which is working to develop technology that will allow humanity to build outposts on the moon and Mars.

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[Hmmmmmmmm]

Hi,
First off it took 10 minutes efforting to put a comment up, so that sucks.
I just wanted to say, $57 million? Is that IT? pfft, I just read another one about a fake painting that went for ten times that. We can't build a moon base w/ $50 million, I'm sorry lolz.

 

[Jay Marrison]

This is a technology demonstration contract funded by NASA and USAF. For more details see link.
ICON NASA/USAF SBIR Contract