3D Printers, On the Moon

Mankind has taken one small step closer to colonising the Moon after the European Space Agency (ESA) revealed its latest plans to provide affordable housing – something we can’t even manage in London [..T]hanks to the magic of 3D printing, experts say the first people could be living on the Moon in as little as 40 years. The ESA’s latest video briefing shows more fleshed-out plans for how robotic 3D printers on wheels would, with a single unit, collect material from the surface of the Moon and convert it into a radiation- and meteor-resistant coating for human accommodation.

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This must be the equivalent of “sharks with frickin laser beams attached to their heads”, in space exploration… Very cool.

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November 09, 2014