I hope they start making the Adobe huts on the moon when they go there next trip.
There is a great Documentary they keep showing on Discovery Channel about Adobe Lunar huts and houses. It is a continuous plastic tube like sausage casing and they fill it with moon dust and coil it into buildings. Weighs practically nothing and they can transport miles of this stuff with little weight gain to missions.
The architect and NASA guys built a heap of different buildings in the desert to test the simplicity of construction and found it astoundingly easy! A few hours work built a hut the size of a single car garage.
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