Special thanks to Core77 reader Richard Chritz: After reading ” Smithsonian Makes Images, 3D Scans and CAD Files from Archive Free to Download ,” he tipped us off that NASA has done the same. The NASA 3D Resources website has posted hundreds of 3D models, images, textures and visualizations that you can download for free.

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As far as models, they’ve got everything from astronaut gloves and spacesuits to satellites and spacecraft: There’s also a Printable section where you can download .stl files for 3D printing (though some of them are fresh conversions that may require tweaking). In that section we found the Cassini probe, the Curiosity Rover, the Hubble Space Telescope, and even the first object designed on Earth, and e-mailed to space for manufacture: A wrench that was 3D printed on the ISS. The coolest thing we found in the 3D Printing section was the Multi-Purpose Precision Maintenance […]

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