Space Manufacturing Test To Start Next Month

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama— Astronauts on the International Space Station will set up a remotely controlled 3-D printer by mid-November to begin the first microgravity tests of space manufacturing, a technology many consider essential for deep-space human exploration. Once the Microgravity Science Glovebox...

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