3D printing in all its variants is the cutting edge in manufacturing technology at the moment. NASA’s Ames Research Center has installed a 3D printer in their machine shop to explore the potential of this technology for space applications. CNET reports:
















































































































![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)



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