CNN CNNI Simulcast December 22, 2014 08:57:00
Printer they have on the iss. it's the first uplinked tool print 234d space. a former astronaut spoke with a colleague of mine, michael holmes, about this technology and the developments. >> when you're making 3-d printed parts one of the things we have to be concerned about is is the part made, suitable, because it's got to pass the quality checks we would have for a critical component. obviously for a hand tool, like a ratchet we wouldn't need that. but 3-d printers have been used to make rocket components. on my particular mission what we could have used was a can opener. can openers were w...