China's First Conference on Building a Base on the Moon

The Tian Gong space station is only about one fourth the size of the International Space Station. China plans to host hundreds, if not over a thousand scientific experiments in the next 10 years. Experts hope that China will 3D print the first brick using real moon soil in 2028 during the Tunglo 8 mission. The European Space Agency has been learning how to make bricks from lunar regolith Simulant.