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3D printing a 100-home community in Texas, and someday on the moon | 60 Minutes 22:27. A young CEO who started a 3D-printing business to create what he believes are faster, cheaper, more hurricane ...
A Texas company — driven by a mission to create faster, better and more affordable housing — is 3D printing homes. It's also working with NASA to 3D print on the Moon. Lesley Stahl reports.
Austin-based ICON said Tuesday morning that it won a $57.2 million Phase III SBIR award from NASA that will bring its 3D printing technology all the way to the Moon. From Earth . . .
Through partnerships and 3-D printing, NASA is plotting how to build houses on the moon by 2040. NASA believes that with 3-D printing and soil made out of moon dust, it can create a subdivision in ...
Microgravity 3D printing using a precious mineral abundant on the moon could help astronauts build on-demand supplies, shield themselves from UV radiation and even refine water, new study shows.
3D printing will help space pioneers make homes, tools and other stuff they need to colonize the Moon and Mars. Story by Sven Bilén, Penn State • 1d.
The Moon has one-sixth the gravity of Earth; Mars, about two-fifths. Engineers and scientists are working now to adapt 3D printers to function in these conditions. Using otherworldly soil ...