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Re: Zero G - 3D printing in space

null@example.com (Charles_Xavier) — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 13:20:07 +0000

Not to mention all the other ways astronauts expose themselves to health hazards and the job generally takes a toll on their bodies.

Re: Zero G - 3D printing in space

null@example.com (drillbit) — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 19:07:21 +0000

Ecarots wrote:

Good idea but it also brings back to this thread
Not much more enclosed than a space station.

I may not be a paleontologist but I'm pretty sure the air filters on the ISS are better than we as average users can obtain/ afford

Re: Zero G - 3D printing in space

null@example.com (Ecarots) — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 11:57:42 +0000

Good idea but it also brings back to this thread

http://www.soliforum.com/topic/3298/3d- … te-inside/

Not much more enclosed than a space station.

Re: Zero G - 3D printing in space

null@example.com (mark.burhop) — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 21:06:06 +0000

Kind of solves the support problem, doesn't it

Seems they are testing it here in Huntsville, Alabama.

Re: Zero G - 3D printing in space

null@example.com (Heartlander) — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:50:10 +0000

I saw that. Presumably their custom printer is a filament extruder, can't imagine a laser unit keeping its powder in one place.

Watch for the astronauts to be checking in here, wanting to know why their extruder prints into space. Oh, wait, that was my problem (unresolved, by the way).

Zero G - 3D printing in space

null@example.com (DigitalWhitewater) — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 18:11:04 +0000

Looks like NASA is going to start 3D printing in space!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/spac … space.html