[FOTZeiss] Future Space Travel May Rely on '3D Printing'

[Glenn A. Walsh]

Say you're hunkered down inside Mars Base-1 and a vital piece of life-support gear breaks down. A hurried search in supply bins proves futile. The next cycler spaceship with equipment is months away. Time is running out.
This disaster scenario could be short-circuited by what's tagged as "additive manufacturing" — a process to fabricate or 3D print a critical widget layer by layer. 

http://spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/07/made-in-space-parts-could-become-space.html

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