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Clown Invasion Space Station 13
Hippie Station 13, took place a couple weeks before I uploaded.

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Hermitcraft FTB: SPACE STATION BUILD! Ep. 11 (Hermitcraft FTB Infinity)
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There Are No Politics on the International Space Station, with Astronaut Ron Garan
Former NASA astronaut Ron Garan explains how the cooperative lessons learned through space exploration are applicable in other realms of life. Garan is author of the new book The Orbital Perspectiv ...

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UFO Appears In Another NASA LIVE Video Feed Watch Now And Discuss!
NASA has been accused of hiding UFOs by cutting its live feed from the International Space Station every time a UFO hovers in site. This month, conspiracy theorists, including UFO watcher Toby......

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International Space Station from Lugano
GoPro shows ISS setting on the horizon while I take a long exposure photograph of its transit.

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Elite: Dangerous, Flight Assist Off Shenanigans in the Oculus Rift
This is me having a bit of fun in Elite with Flight Assist Off around a Coriolis Space station. I use a dual joystick setup + pedals to get the best 3D thruster control. A pic of my setup:...

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Space Station Live: A View from Aloft
NASA Commentator Dan Huot talks with Dr. Lisa Vanderbloemen, the manager of the Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, about the Crew Earth ...

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Cargo Vehicle Ground Processing
B-roll of cargo vehicle processing for the International Space Station. Image credit: Courtesy NASA.

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The astronauts aboard the International Space Station usually receive packages from Earth, but things are the other way around this week: A shipment of parts 3-D printed in orbit has made its way back to the surface for testing. The ISS 3-D printer has been active for a few months, putting out small pieces and complete tools, and now the items need to be examined closely to see whether they came out right. NASA's Quincy Bean is in charge of the printer project, and got to unbox the carefully packaged pieces, which were sent back to Earth in February aboard SpaceX's fifth contracted resupply mission to the ISS. You can watch him do the honors in this video uploaded Tuesday:

One piece he shows off is a complete ratchet, which was designed on Earth and then "beamed up" to the station, where it was actually printed in November. Previously the printer had made a spare part for itself, and since then has made all manner of small pieces that will help the investigators understand how microgravity affects the printing process.

Once the details are worked out, the ISS crew will know what parts and tools can be reliably replaced by printed versions, removing the need to send up more via rocket. You can keep up with the latest news from the project at NASA's 3-D Printing site.

First published April 7 2015, 1:26 PM

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Space Station Sends 3-D-Printed Parts Back to Earth

April 7, 2015

The first items ever manufactured in space with a 3-D printer were unboxed on April 6, 2015 in the Additive Manufacturing Laboratory at NASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The parts were made on the International Space Station and returned to Earth for testing at Marshall. (Credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given)

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Engineers atNASAs Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, unboxed some special cargo from theInternational Space Station on April 6: the first items manufactured in space with a 3-D printer.

The items were manufactured as part of the3-D Printing in Zero-G Technology Demonstration on the space station to show that additive manufacturing can make a variety of parts and tools in space. These early in-space 3-D printing demonstrations are the first steps toward realizing an additive manufacturing, print-on-demand machine shop for long-duration missions and sustaining human exploration of other planets, where there is extremely limited ability and availability of Earth-based resupply and logistics support. In-space manufacturing technologies like 3-D printing will help NASA explore Mars, asteroids, and other locations.

A cool plate on the inside of the Made In Space 3D printer. If you know code, you may be able to translate what all those 1's and 0's mean. But if not, according to Made In Space, they say, "Make it so," which was one of Jean Luc Picard's catchphrases in "Star Trek". (Credit: redOrbit)

The technology demonstration got underway when NASA astronaut Barry Butch Wilmore installed the printer in the stationsMicrogravity Science Glovebox in November 2014. Before the end of the year, the crew manufactured 21 items including awrench, the first tool built in space. To make the items, the printer heated a relatively low-temperature plastic filament to build parts, layer on top of layer, in designs supplied to the machine. The printer remains on aboard the station for continued use later this year. The station provides a one-of-a-kind laboratory for demonstrating additive manufacturing in the microgravity environment where NASA wants to use the technology.

The aforementioned wrench. (Credit: redOrbit)

The printer used 14 different designs and built a total of 21 items and some calibration coupons. The parts returned to Earth in February on the SpaceX Dragon. They were then delivered to Marshall where the testing to compare the ground controls to the flight parts will be conducted. Before the printer was launched to the space station, it made an identical set of parts. Now, materials engineers will put both the space samples and ground control samples literally under a microscope and through a series of tests. Project engineers will perform durability, strength and structural tests on both sets of printed items and even put them under an electron microscope to scan for differences in the objects.

To build and operate the printer, NASA worked with Made In Space Inc., a northern California company that is building anAdditive Manufacturing Facility the next-generation printer that will be operated on the station. This printer will be available to both commercial and government users, including NASA, through theCenter for the Advancement of Science In Space, or CASIS.

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