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Wearing an experimental spacesuit, the author walks past an adobe structure
built using minimally processed soil employing In Situ Resource Utilization
Technology. Using a minimum number of tools and equipment, this 36 cubic
meter structure was erected by three people in five days. Such structures
could provide ample radiation protection for the crew while an inflatable,
inner membrane structure attached to an airlock would retain the earthlike
atmosphere. By studying the merits and limitations of this technology in
simulators like these, we are able to ferret out the problems and refine
the deployment operation well in advance of the Mars 2030 mission.
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