The US wants to go back to the moon and Utah is involved.
SALT LAKE CITY — Sixty years have passed since John F. Kennedy uttered the famous words, "we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard," at the beginning of a new space race.The U.S. is in a new race against China to place a permanent base on the moon. That project will require new technology and NASA has picked a handful of schools across the country to help.
"The problem that we're looking at in particular is the problem of space, in general," Anderson said. "The distances are incredibly far — you're talking about thousands of kilometers away. And how do you supply that? Well, the only way that we know to supply it is to put it on top of a rocket and send it up into space. But that costs many, many thousands of dollars per kilogram.
Anderson said any future lunar base will need to sustain itself without constant packages from Earth. However, that's been impossible so far because of how big the equipment would need to be. Until now, that is. "Now imagine that you can do all of that with simply an astronaut, holding a shovel, something that's about the size of a septic tank a 3D printer that is maybe the size of a countertop. And then some slight sandblasting finishing and you've done everything from mining, to refining, to shaping to finishing that product," Anderson said.Additionally, he said Utah's win in this competition could be big for the future of aerospace in the state.
"As far as we're aware, this is the first time that the University of Utah has been a finalist in this competition," He said. "What it also means is that it's brought in funding for the university and possibly could lead to other projects."
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