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Branch Technology and Foster + Partners Take First Place Again in Latest Round of NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge
It’s an amazing thought that many people alive on Earth today might, in their lifetimes, see humans landing on – and even living on – Mars. It’s even more likely…
Techmer PM Materials Design Know-How “Vital” in 3D Printed Habitat Challenge Success
Early last week, NASA announced the winners of the second level of the second phase of the 3D Printed Habitat Challenge, a multiphase competition that began in 2015 and challenges…
Building in the Stars: Phase Two, Level Two Winners Announced for NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge
My husband and I are science fiction fans, and as such own some of Ray Bradbury’s works, including short story collection The Martian Chronicles. I especially like “The Million-Year Picnic,”…
NASA Announces Winners of First Part of Phase Two in 3D Printed Habitat Challenge
Two years ago, NASA issued a challenge: 3D print viable habitats that people can potentially live in on Mars, the moon, or elsewhere in the future, using locally available materials….
LASIMM Project is Poised to Usher in a New Era of Hybrid Additive Manufacturing
Two trends that have really stood out recently in the 3D printing/additive manufacturing industry are large-scale 3D printers and hybrid 3D printers. Additive manufacturing combined with other forms of technology…
ESA Meets Again to Discuss Moon Colonization—3D Printing & Robotics Will Be Key
3D printing has, over the years, become connected to space travel in countless ways; in fact, entities like NASA were using the technology before most of us even had an…
‘Designers, Makers, and Users: 3D Printing the Future’ Exhibit Opens at Museum of Design Atlanta
The museum once known as the Atlanta International Museum of Art & Design changed its name in 2003 to the Museum of Design Atlanta, allowing itself the clever acronym of…
Comet Runner: Will 3D Printing Make Comet Hopping a Reality?
Projects like the 3D Printing in Zero-G Technology Demonstration from NASA on the International Space Station and a London architecture firm’s work with the European Space Agency to consider methods…