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Title: The Brand New Made-in-Space Frontier Post by: HCK on March 26, 2016, 04:05:17 pm The Brand New Made-in-Space Frontier
What happens when you're 220 miles above Earth on the International Space Station and you need a tool you don't have? You can print one yourself. In 2014, American astronauts for the first time printed a tool -- a ratchet wrench -- using a design file sent from NASA on the ground to the 3D printer spinning about in space. The feat was only the first step to much larger miracles in space. Source: The Brand New Made-in-Space Frontier (http://www.technewsworld.com/story/83264.html?rss=1) |