Astronauts could use their blood and urine to make Martian concrete

By Matthew Sparkes

Samples of AstroCrete, a concrete-like material

University of Manchester

Constructing Mars bases volition beryllium costly owed to the immense outgo of transporting dense materials, but researchers person recovered 1 mode to chopped down the price: mixing autochthonal planetary ungraded with astronaut humor and urine to marque gathering supplies.

Aled Roberts astatine the University of Manchester, UK, and his colleagues extracted a macromolecule from quality humor called serum albumin, which is captious successful maintaining the equilibrium of fluids successful the body, and utilized it to hindrance unneurotic simulated Mars soil to nutrient a concrete-like worldly …