
NASA says it will be ready to launch a zero-G-ready 3D printer into space in June 2014, in time for the fifth SpaceX resupply mission to the ISS. The agency has prepared a video, complete with upbeat muzak, that details not only how astronauts will be able to print objects on demand, but why they might need to do so in the first place. As astronaut Timothy “TJ” Creamer puts it, 3D printers will enable “Star Trek replication right there on the spot.”
via The Verge


