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Washington DC – Brazilian students presented Thursday (28th) in Washington a project to test the use of cement in the construction of houses in the space for members of the US. 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 among 72 Brazilian works, in a competition 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 follow the presentation, the goal being to "Observe how the cement behaves in space and check if it is possible to 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 mixture 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 paper is based on the idea that in the future, other planets in the solar system could 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.
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