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Made In Space

  • You can't build space cities on the surface of asteroids, or even inside them, really, but you could turn them inside out to become the ground layers of spinning ring-type space stations, says a Rochester team, and it'd be a relatively cheap and easy way to build yourself a space habitat for humanity
    Space
    Inside-out asteroids: A practical method for creating space habitats
    A University of Rochester team says it's come up with a relatively cheap and easy way to build rotating, city-sized space habitats that's technically feasible using current technologies. All you need to do, it seems, is turn an asteroid inside out.
  • International Space Station Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore with the first object made in space by 3D printing (Image: NASA)
    3D Printing
    First object 3D-printed in space aboard ISS
    The first 3D printer in space has run off its first object aboard the ISS. The item was a faceplate embossed with "NASA and Made In Space, Inc" and is part of a NASA effort aimed at producing spare parts for long-range space flights and greatly simplifying mission logistics.