First 3D Printer Aboard Space Station

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Printing Challenges for the First 3D Printer Aboard the International Space Station

The six-member Expedition 40 crew is counting down to a Thursday morning spacewalk. Meanwhile, the orbital residents are conducting an array of international science and station maintenance tasks.

A pair of cosmonauts spent Tuesday morning conducting a dress rehearsal of Thursday’s spacewalk. They donned their Russian Orlan space suits, checked their systems and performed a fit check at suit pressure.

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Space Station Live: Manufacturing in Space

NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center and a commercial company called Made in Space are working together to send a 3-D printer to the International Space Station, the first step toward realizing a suite of capabilities for in-space manufacturing.

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Source: NASA - Multimedia

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NASA Completes Testing on 3-D Printer

A 3-D printer that astronauts call their version of a "Star Trek" replicator has just completed a series of tests at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, verifying it is ready to be launched to the International Space Station later this year.

In-space additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing, has the potential to revolutionize every aspect of space exploration from printing small critical parts and tools to eventually building larger structures in space.

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