Creating space homes from nature. Meet Nader Khalili. In February of this year he began building a prototype of a lunar colony near the Mojave Desert in California to demonstrate how it's possible to construct buildings in space using extraterrestrial materials.
Space can be a dangerous place.
But space architects love the challenge. But doing it safely is the hard part. Space Architect Nader Khalili stands inside one of his domed structures located near the Mojave Desert. Currently, billions of pieces of old spacecraft, satellites and rocket boosters, also known as space junk , are in low Earth orbit. These floating heaps of trash pose serious problems for the future of spaceflight.