ZDNet

3D printing hands on: Attempting to print a NASA wrench

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 ...
Hackaday

NASA Puts Its 3D Models Up On GitHub

NASA has a bunch of its 3D models up on GitHub, and if you didn’t know about it before, you do now. It’s a ridiculously large download, at over one and a half jiggabytes, but it’s full of textures and ...
New Atlas

NASA releases 3D-printable models to the public

If you have access to a 3D printer, then you can build your own space fleet courtesy of NASA – provided you don’t mind spacecraft that are plastic and four inches long. As part of its continuing ...
Computerworld

How astronauts 3D printed a wrench they needed in space

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 ...
Computerworld

Thanks to NASA, you can now 3D print models of satellites, probes and planets

NASA has released 21 files that can be used by 3D printers to create models of satellites, probes, planetary formations — even asteroids. The files, which come in the STL (stereolithography) format, ...