Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants
If this works (big if) and they are able to essentially build a solar panel factory in a box and if lab grown protein is both able to scale and be shipped in a modular structure (big if) they have effectively solved or close to solved 2 of the largest challenges involved in establishing moon or mars based colonies. Food and power. Science fiction is sneaking up on us.<p>If it can be automated you could essentially launch space craft factories that land and build solar panels prior to humans arriving. Far fetched but neat to think about. Approaching von Neumann probe territory