Sentences with phrase «tools as the astronauts»

Made in Space's technology — dubbed the Additive Manufacturing Facility — is busy printing replacement parts and tools as the astronauts need them; a far better choice than launching replacement tools from Earth on future rockets, which could take more than several months to arrive.

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One of its printers produced a wrench for astronauts at the International Space Station, the first such tool to be printed — and an advancement that could open the doors for what's known as deep space travel, or longer trips from the Earth, such as Mars.

Astronauts would only need «feedstock» material, such as plastic or metal, to make new tools or spare parts on the fly.

It also includes spent upper - stage rockets, used to loft the satellites into orbit, and items that have escaped the grasp of butterfingered astronauts, such as the glove Ed White dropped in 1965 as he became the first American to walk in space, and the tool kit that slipped from Heide Stefanyshyn - Piper's hand during a 2008 space walk.

Stepping away from VR was a challenge, but just two of the new games worth watching out for in reality were Dreams by Media Molecule, an incredible game / creative tool that allows players to make environments, characters and animations, play with them and share online and Astroneer by System Era, a beautiful planet exploration game with you as an astronaut armed with the ability to instantly terraform the landscape around them.

The applications for 3D printing in space are endless and could drive space exploration by allowing on - demand manufacturing of objects like tools and habitats needed for human missions, housing and laboratories could be built by robots using printed building blocks that take advantage of available soils and minerals and astronauts on long - duration space missions also could print and recycle tools as they are needed, saving mass, volume and resources.