When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The 3D printer aboard the International Space Station has wrapped up the first phase of its ...

LONG BEACH, CALIF. — There’s a major supply chain issue in space. It costs $10,000 per kilogram to blast something into orbit; a liter of water in space costs $10,000. In fact, only 2% of what NASA ...

It costs about a thousand dollars to loft a pound of anything into space. Scientists, astronauts, and project managers are therefore understandably careful about what they choose to send to the ...

Astronauts aboard the ISS needed a new wrench, so NASA emailed the code to the Zero-G 3D printer aboard the space station where it took about four hours to print. NASA also released new images showing ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- A Bay Area-based company had a hand in the first tool that was 3-D-printed in space. When Commander Butch Wilmore needed a wrench for a fix, NASA didn't let distance stand in ...

You may recall that late last year, a breakthrough in manufacturing occurred a few hundred miles above the Earth. After having sent a 3D printer to the International Space Station and printed its ...

Launching anything into space requires a massive amount of time, money and resources. So what if astronauts could just “print out” anything they need? Now they can! Astronauts on the International ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (KGO) -- A Bay Area-based company had a hand in the first tool that was 3-D-printed in space. When Commander Butch Wilmore needed a wrench for a fix, NASA didn't let distance ...

The Plastic Bank, a Vancouver-based social enterprise I wrote about last fall, just announced it’s created, in the words of co-founder Shaun Frankson, “the world’s first 3D printed item from entirely ...

Astronaut Barry Wilmore needed a socket wrench, but there was just one problem. Wilmore is currently on the ISS, over 200 miles above the nearest hardware store. So, what did NASA do? Easy, they ...

International Space Station Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore shows off a ratchet wrench made with a 3D printer aboard the orbiting lab. The wrench and other parts will return to Earth for comparison ...