The National Space Society (NSS) program Enterprise in Space (EIS), are calling for university teams to send in their visions of interplanetary transport, construction, and habitats for the opportunity to have them fabricated in space. The competition is called Print the Future (PTF) and is a collaboration with four other partners, one of which is space manufacturing giants Made In Space who will be sending the first commercial 3D printer to the International Space Station (ISS) in 2017.
“An essential technology to extending humanity’s reach in space is in-space manufacturing. By manufacturing new designs in space, we’ll be able to forgo the high cost of shipping supplies by rocket and instead fa...
SOURCE: 3dprintingindustry.com ( go on reading...)
