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ESA’s LEGO Space Bricks: From Meteorites to Moon Bases

ESA developed LEGO-style space bricks using meteorite dust to simulate lunar regolith, enabling the testing of construction techniques for potential Moon bases. European Space Agency scientists have been exploring how a future Moon base might be built from materials on the lunar surface. Inspired

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