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To Advance Space Colonization, WVU Research Explores 3D Printing in Microgravity
October 31, 2023
MORGANTOWN, West Virginia, Oct. 31 (TNSres) -- West Virginia University issued the following news:

Research from West Virginia University students and faculty into how 3D printing works in a weightless environment aims to support long-term exploration and habitation on spaceships, the moon or Mars.

Extended missions in outer space require the manufacture of crucial materials and equipment onsite, rather than transporting those items from Earth. Members of the Microgravi . . .

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