Mention space missions, what may first come to mind is either rocket blastoffs, spaceships voyaging toward another planet or astronauts walking in the black of vacuum in fat spacesuits.

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All of those things are made on Earth, but for both convenience and long-haul trips, building things in space is an increasingly important.

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“If we’re going to colonize Mars, we absolutely have to have the ability to do manufacturing there and ideally using local materials,” Andrew Rush, president of Made In Space, Inc., a Florida startup specializing in 3D printing in space, tells Observer. Made In Space is the first company to successfully manufacture an object in an […]

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