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Brazilian students presented a project in Washington on Thursday to test the use of cement in building homes in space for members of the US Space Agency, NASA. The students, who are from São Paulo and are between 12 and 13 years old, are the only Brazilians among 10,000 participants from the United States and Canada.
The project was selected from 72 Brazilian works, in a contest promoted by the United States Government. It will be sent to the International Space Station aboard a rocket that will be launched today (29) from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
According to the mother of one of the students who developed the project – called "Space Cement" – the lawyer Fernanda de Figueiredo Funck, who was in Washington to accompany the presentation, the goal is to observe "how the cement behaves in space and see if you can build houses on other planets, like Mars, for example."
According to Fernanda, plastic polymers have been mixed with cement and now scientists will observe how the mix behaves on Earth and in space as it will be sent to the International Space Station. According to her, her son, Guilherme, wants to become a civil engineer in the future. "This could be a send-off for his career." Guilherme himself says that he believes that selecting the project in the contest helps "to spread science more to Brazil".
The work is based on the idea that in the future, other planets in the solar system can be occupied by humans. Since then, college students Dante Alighieri, Anchor Project and the Perimeter Municipal School, want to discover materials that can be used in the homes of space. They believe that the mix of cement and plastic will adapt in the same way as what happens on Earth.
Edition: Graça Adjuto
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