The first 3D printer ever to fly in space will blast off this month, and NASA has high hopes for the innovative device's test runs on the International Space Station. The 3D printer, which is ...

Adam Ellsworth, Brinson White and Jason Dunn of Made in Space testing 3D printing in microgravity ... plane and its passengers (including printers) are in free-fall, simulating microgravity ...

funded through NASA’s Flight Opportunities program and with support from Berkeley Engineering and the Berkeley Space Center, allowed us to validate the readiness of this 3D printing technology ...

This week the International Space Station has received its first and highly anticipated 3D printer which has been installed inside the Destiny laboratory’s Microgravity Science Glovebox by ...

In one small step towards space manufacturing, NASA is sending a 3D printer to the International Space Station. Astronauts will be able to make plastic objects of almost any shape they like ...

If a new NASA program is successul, astronauts will soon have access to a 3D printer instead to manufacture whatever tool or part they need. The U.S. space agency is planning on sending its first ...