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Affordable housing in outer space: Scientists develop cosmic concrete from space dust and astronaut blood

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Transporting a single brick to Mars can cost more than a million British pounds — making the future construction of a Martian colony seem prohibitively expensive. Scientists have now developed a way to potentially overcome this problem, by creating a concrete-like material made of extra-terrestrial dust along with the blood, sweat and tears of astronauts.

Source: ScienceDaily.com