Skyler Chan: building a hotel on the moon, one brick at a time

Gru's answer to pressure and temperature: an inflatable structure that ships flat from Earth, deploys on the lunar surface, and holds a human being alive

Gru's answer to radiation: a brick, made on the moon, from the moon, using a geopolymer process mixed with lunar regolith

Nobody has ever made anything on the moon. Mission one, targeting 2029, makes the first brick and inflates the first bladder

Why the cost per kilogram to the moon is $1 million today, why SpaceX says $100,000, and why Gru is betting on neither figure lasting

This is not a technology problem. It is an operational problem. We went to the moon in 1969 with less computing power than the phone in your pocket

The hate mail, the haters, and why Skyler thinks none of it matters