Space Station's 3D Printer Makes 1st Part

Tuesday, November 25, 2014 - 16:01 in Earth & Climate

The milestone marks a key step toward a future in which voyaging spaceships print out their own spare parts on the go and colonists on other worlds make what they need from the dirt beneath their boots, 3D printing advocates say.

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