3D Printing Is Going to Space

The startup Made in Space is employing advanced 3D printing to build objects in orbit

Carl Franzen
OneZero
8 min readSep 23, 2019

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Illustration: Molly Dyson

IfIf you’re a nerd like me, the image of a half-constructed, almost skeletal second Death Star from Return of the Jedi is permanently lodged in your brain as one of the most majestically ominous creations in all of cinema.

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Carl Franzen
OneZero

Storyteller @Xerox. When not doing that, I mostly write fiction.