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- Title
3D Printing in Space.
- Authors
Leach, Neil
- Abstract
The cost of transporting raw materials into Space is prohibitive - potentially US$2 million for a single brick to be shipped to the Moon. This means that the future of extraterrestrial construction rests on the development of technologies that are able to employ in-situ materials, such as lunar dust. Guest-Editor Neil Leach is a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow, collaborating with colleagues from the University of Southern California (USC) on a research project developing a robotic fabrication technology capable of printing structures on the Moon and Mars. Here he describes the inroads that NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) consortia are independently making into 3D-printed fabrication technologies.
- Subjects
SPACE colonies; THREE-dimensional printing; LUNAR bases; ARCHITECTURE &; technology; MARS (Planet)
- Publication
Architectural Design, 2014, Vol 84, Issue 6, p108
- ISSN
0003-8504
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/ad.1840