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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 among 72 Brazilian works in a competition promoted by the United States Government.
According to the mother of one of the students who developed the project – called "Space Cement" – he will be sent to the International Space Station on a rocket that will be launched today (29), from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, – Lawyer Fernanda de Figueiredo Funck, who was in Washington to accompany the presentation, aims to "observe how cement behaves in the space and see s & d It is possible to build houses on other planets, like Mars. " [19659004] 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 more science to Brazil."
The work is based on the idea that in the future of other planets of the solar system can be occupied by human beings. 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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