3D -Druck hilft den Weltraumpionieren, Häuser, Werkzeuge und andere Dinge herzustellen, die sie benötigen, um den Mond und den Mars zu kolonisieren
https://theconversation.com/3d-printing-will-help-space-pioneers-make-homes-tools-and-other-stuff-they-need-to-colonize-the-moon-and-mars-245930
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From the article
Something similar will take place when humanity leaves Earth for destinations such as the Moon and Mars – although astronauts will face even greater challenges than, for example, the Vikings did when they reached Greenland and Newfoundland. Not only will the astronauts have limited supplies and the need to live off the land; they won’t even be able to breathe the air.
Instead of axes and plows, however, today’s space pioneers will bring 3D printers. As [an engineer and professor](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ckQTyHoAAAAJ&hl=en) who is developing technologies to extend the human presence beyond Earth, I focus my work and research on these remarkable machines.
3D printers will make the tools, structures and habitats space pioneers need to survive in a hostile alien environment. They will enable long-term human presence on the Moon and Mars.
The first Martians will have a lot of chores we want them to do.
Enjoy that red dust ball.
I think I remember similar in the Red Mars book, where they made what they needed for building materials from the surface soil or rocks from the planet, pressed or formed or something. I need to re-read the books its been a while! but yeah being able to use local resources for a multitude of things would solve a lot of problems.
It could also do that here, where materials are becoming more expensive and we have a housing crisis.
If you’ve ever messed with a 3D printer, then it’s pretty obviously an important tool for any extended mission.
We don’t know how yet, sure you can do 3d printing with Portland cement in earth gravity at air pressure, but how about it 1/6 and 1/3 earth gravity in the vacuum of space and 1% earth air pressure (basically a vacuum) and with a material that we have never built anything with? The simulants you can buy of these places bare little resemblance to the particle size and shape of the moon and mars and on top of that are very expensive, no one has been able to prove it is possible at scale from a materials stand point and it is impossible to test from limited gravity standpoint. Renderings are easy, prototypes and peer reviewed studies, not so much.
The brick is a tried and true building material proven effective since antiquity. It ain’t sexy, but it gets the job done.
Great idea. Sort of like a primitive version of a replicator.
Global wars and climate collapse will preclude any harebrained aspirations that Oligarchs have of colonizing Mars.