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hello everybody and welcome to today's

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Hubble hang out my name is Tony Darnell

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I work at the Space Telescope Science

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Institute and we haven't really good

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hangout plan fee today we're gonna be

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talking about 3d printing in space I've

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been dying to do that okay so with and

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we have with us today Jason Donna he's

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the chief technology officer from made

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in space and he's going to tell us all

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about what the future looks like for

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printing up when zero g and but before i

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get started let me tell you we're

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looking to hat get your questions and

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they'll go for the verified one because

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that's that's us that's there's like

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we verified one yes then now the Hubble

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I guess we relate to the game in

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facebook it was before my time but yeah

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there's a lot of Facebook pages out

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there that it's and many are Hubble

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Space Telescope of Facebook pages they

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have a lot more likes than us too so we

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one would like to try and catch up so we

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hope you'll do that so yeah that's a

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good point Scott thanks so which brings

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me to the people of my introductions

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with me as I as always is dr. carol

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christian she is the HST the Hubble

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outreach scientist hi Carol welcome and

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also scott lewis from know the cosmos

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calm and he's basically dinner known

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everywhere on the internet so thank you

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all i don't know about everywhere that's

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scary let's let's do with the good nerdy

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part to the internet i was thinkin that

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all right oh oh that's right yeah good

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clarification yeah okay so as i

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mentioned earlier jason dunn he's the

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co-founder and chief technology officer

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of made in space and you and he is here

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to talk to us today about 3d printing

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and some of the things they're doing now

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you'll remember a couple of weeks ago

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carol scott and i did a hangout on 3d

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printing that as part of the stuff that

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Carol would have been working on with

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education materials and and and you know

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visually impaired education things like

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that and Jason though is working with

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his team his company on something

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completely different so Jason welcome to

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our hangout and thanks for having me

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here it's a pleasure why don't you tell

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us a little bit about why what what what

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made in space is doing and you're you

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you helped co-found it along with I

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think to other people is that right tell

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us what you're doing on what your

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company is all about yeah be happy to so

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we started main space a little over four

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years ago now in the summer of two

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thousand ten really myself and my

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co-founders came together because we all

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believe that humanity needs to live in

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more places than just here on the

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surface of planet Earth and and we also

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believe that that can happen you know

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relatively soon as long as the right

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people start focusing attention on it so

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for us we care a lot about expanding our

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reach throughout the solar system and

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through that we kind of start looking

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all the problems why aren't we doing

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that today and identified that you know

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we can really live off the land so to

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speak and manufacture the things we need

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wherever we go we could actually enable

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a more rapid pace of sending humans to

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other planets and building new plan that

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you know new worlds of our own so we

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start focusing on space manufacturing

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and in 2010

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that idea was widely left up to science

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fiction some nasta roadmaps had it set a

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much further out than you know a few

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years later but we we took a different

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approach and we looked at how the 3d

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printing technology could enable

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basically robotic manufacturing in a way

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that we haven't had before and like I

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like how you put it with living off the

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land that's really cool now this is also

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this is also driven in part by annick by

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something that NASA is doing right there

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they had any 3d yet they're calling it

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the 3d printing in zero-g technology

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demonstration or something like that

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way the way this worked out is we we

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helped reinvigorate NASA in a way we

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space manufacturing and that's what made

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in space would be pursuing and through

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that we developed some partnerships with

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NASA we took in 2011 we did zero gravity

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flights and I believe we even have some

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some footage there to show maybe later

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of us testing 3d printers in zero

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gravity and and then we went to design

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one for the space stage and the you know

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the really exciting thing is just last

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month made in space and nasa launched

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the first 3d printer to the space

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station so this made in space printer is

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up there it would work with NASA to

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create a technology demonstration

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mission out of this and it's called just

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like you said Tony the 3d printing in

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zero-g experiment and with a we caught

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3d print for short 3d print is really

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it's really exciting and for a lot of

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reasons but the one I'll say right now

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is that up until this point in time

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there's only been one way to get

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hardware into space and that's been

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launching it on rocket and now today

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with the 3d printer on the space station

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there's actually an entirely new way to

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get hardware there we in fact just email

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the digital file to our 3d printer and

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print it out so you think that's

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paradigm shift well I'm going to get to

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that in just a minute because to me it

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seems like you know mass is mass and

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you're going to have to get something up

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there to make the print things out of

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but we'll get to that in just a sec why

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uh one let's take a step back though and

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let's talk a little bit about what 3d

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printing is and in particular what is

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your what sets your printer apart from

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say the one that we talked about a few

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weeks ago with what Carol's got going in

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the background and everybody knows carol

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always has something printing in the

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background all of our hangout so so

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probably it mine is really cheap what go

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ahead Jason yeah it's a really good

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question when we started this this

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company and set the the goal of this put

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a 3d printer on the space station we we

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had a really big hope that a commercial

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3d printer would do the job because as a

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company what we really want to get to is

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the point where anybody on planet earth

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can send their hardware to space by

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printing it there we want to open the

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doors to space this way so getting a

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printer there quick was was our goal we

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um we took these commercial printers on

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the zero-g flights and we tested over a

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dozen different printers and then built

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some new printers of our own but through

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that entire process we did over over

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three hours of zero gravity time and we

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found that none of the commercial

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printers would work we had to modify

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them significantly and you know to get

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thermal settings right to get the

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mechanical settings right I'll do all

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the things you would imagine but then on

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top of that just to build a printer that

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could survive launch to the space

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station to meet all the safety

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requirements to work on the space

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station not to you know the outgassing

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can be harmful for the crew and the EMI

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and the things like that we actually had

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to just go down a road of developing an

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entirely new type of printer one that's

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much more rugged and reliable it's

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extremely safe and it's really easy to

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use in fact there's only one button on

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the entire printer and that's the on

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switch everything else is controlled at

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our ground station here in Mountain View

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California so we actually operate the

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printer from the ground oh so you went

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to the apple design school then right

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one button is all you need Hughes where

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you guys running into when you're in the

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the vomit comet as it were doing your

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ear research what you said that you're

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doing 12 different different commercial

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printers of did you see a common issue

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among them all that

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you needed really address so you get it

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mmhmm yeah so the there's there's

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definitely kind of a wide range there

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but the basic point is you know we had

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to figure out is how to get surface

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tension to dominate so everybody would

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everybody jump straight to the point

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well how do you how do you lay down one

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layer at a time of plastic if gravity is

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not there so for us it was a lot of fine

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tune adjustments to make sure that

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surface tension alone could could hold

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these layers in place and to do that

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requires a redesign of the entire

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printer in a way because the current

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printers today we're designed inherently

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with gravity in mind so gravity there is

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there to hold build platforms in place

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and belts and pulleys move appropriately

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with gravity so remove of gravity things

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start floating around and even if it's

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floating by a fraction of a millimeter

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back and forth that can screw up a whole

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print so we added me to first and

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foremost figure out how to fix the

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printers to be more rugged and and you

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could you know shake them around and

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they'll still print in fact we do that

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now we can take our printer wallets

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pretty shake it turn it upside down do

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whatever one is just you know this

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really rugged machine so how'd you do

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that what how'd you solve the problem

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what exactly is doing or is that some

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dietary it gets towards a the area of

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the proprietary like secret sauce of

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what we've done eight unicorn is

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essentially what it came down to right

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space unicorns have space unicorns that

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that that's part of it minor

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complication talk about know so we yeah

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there's a lot of it's a lot of like you

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know redesigning thinking of it with

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different requirements we um the thermal

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characteristics that's an interesting

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one because if you we all know that hot

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air rises in the rooms that were sitting

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in right now but if you remove gravity

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hot air doesn't rise there's no buoyancy

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effects so hot there just stays around

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the area where it's created so we had to

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figure out how to thermally control the

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print environment which is also another

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important one so you have a you had to

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invent things that sounds like to get

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all of this stuff to work so I suppose

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yeah it's a lot like then that's pretty

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typical of a lot of things that you know

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isn't its involvement with NASA about

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technologies just have to be invented

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why is net so NASA is interested in

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doing this because they want to be able

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to print things or they want to

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manufacture things in space that's the

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that's the driver for it but um I guess

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my question is how how is it really i

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mean you didn't really thought you

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solved the problem of you know launching

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parts individual parts in space but you

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did you didn't sound to me like and i

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don't know how i also say this i don't

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think the problem of getting mass up

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into orbit has been solved you still got

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to have whatever it is that your printer

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is using right to be up there and that

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is not you know 00 wait and i wantam

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Adam yeah well I mean you brought that

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up Tony um we we identified that problem

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from really from day one because it's

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one thing to say hey it's great that the

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printer is in space there are problem

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even if you have to send the raw

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material it's still beneficial because

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when you're when you don't have to

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design your card we're to survive launch

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and you remove the requirement of it

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having it with stance several times the

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force of gravity and all these

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vibrational loads you can actually

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redesign your space structures to be

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extremely delicate in a way so imagine

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something that only has to work in zero

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gravity it doesn't have to support its

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own weight so just by sending the raw

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material in its like most condensed form

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we can actually let that material go

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much longer way by building what we call

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zero gravity structures so that's um

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that's number one so even today with the

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printer there and just launching the

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feedstock there's still a net benefit

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also time just the fact of just getting

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things to space quicker we can by

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printing there we can we can shortcut

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the entire process of launch manifests

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and all those things so hardware to

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space in in days to weeks is incredibly

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beneficial now still wasn't good enough

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for us we recognize it at the end of the

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day we still don't want to be dependent

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on earth if we send

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crew to Mars to live on Mars and we rely

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on earth dependency and have to keep

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launching rocket after rocket of

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resupply we really then solve the

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problem of living off the land so when

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we start to look at the past couple

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years is how can we actually produce

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feedstock for the 3d printer on the

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space station and we started developing

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a new piece of technology that we call

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redo and redo for the fact that you can

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take a 3d printed part and redo it turn

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it right back into the feedstock oh wow

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that is awesome yeah so redo is it's

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under development right now it's in our

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lab and it you actually use it for our

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3d printer feedstock work we're we're

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getting to the point where in our lab

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here in Mountain View we don't have to

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buy feedstock anymore we just keep

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reusing what we already have by redoing

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it now the interesting thing is once we

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start diving into this problem we

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realized that the space station has a

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lot of plastic waste a lot of the the

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food comes up in polyethylene bags the

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packaging foam all these things are

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actually a polymer and we redesign redo

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to actually take plastic waste on the

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space station and turn that into

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filament as well so really neat because

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what this is is a really useful form of

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what we call is are you or in situ

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resource utilization so end of the day

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we're actually turning waste on the

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space station in upcycling it turning

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into something more useful that's

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amazing so so this there's a question

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right now I that space station to make a

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new stuff what I I said you can scuttle

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butt the space station to make new stuff

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once you have enough large up there you

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just like oh I don't like this

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experiment well if I gonna park what'd

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you do with my experiment l I agree

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printed it up for a new culture so this

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is related to a question jonathan peters

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is asking on the Q&A have what types of

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materials does a printer use and you've

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already said that you've got this redo

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that's in development you're looking at

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recycling or reusing the waste material

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that's already on the space station what

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is there a base stock that you use just

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commonly yeah we uh the printer that is

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on the space station today is an ABS

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printer so a lot like the 3d printers

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that were all used to using in our homes

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we're printing with ABS main reason why

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there is because this is it it like we

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mentioned the technology demonstration

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and we need a really good way to compare

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our printer works in space compared to

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one on the ground so using abs we can

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compare against a wide wide amount of

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data on the ground now that actually

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isn't the end-all be-all we can't you

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know build everything we need out of ABS

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plastic so made in space will launch a

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second printer next year it's a

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commercial facilities so that's where

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all the viewers here if they get excited

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and want to build hardware and space by

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you know giving us the digital file and

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3d printing it it will most likely get

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printed on the second printer which

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flies next year and it's it does a wide

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arrangement of materials so we have

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space qualified polymers if you want to

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build a CubeSat for instance we can

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build that and put it out in the vacuum

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we've developed materials that can be

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used for biological experiments and

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other experiments you do on the space

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station so really how much or whatever

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you like it's designed to do those

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materials nice that's that's really

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amazing so I understand the importance

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or that where you know the savings of

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not having to anticipate you know which

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spare part you're going to need when

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you're up in space and making sure that

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they're all launched I can see the

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weight savings there and I also now see

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that you especially with redo you'll be

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able to remake some of these parts uh

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yeah and you're also saving weight from

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being able to not when making the part

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in space it doesn't have to be as heavy

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as when you make it here on earth what

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um how I guess is anything being made

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now right I mean that as they sort have

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they started using the printer yet the

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the printer has not been turned on yet

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it's a it's basically this printer goes

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inside of the microgravity science

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glovebox in fact I'll know how well you

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can see the image behind me on the wall

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but it might look like I'm inside of the

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space station the msg the

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so somewhere up in the corner and it's a

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it's what it sounds like it's a glove

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box that you can put it in experiment

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into and and and the astronauts have

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this like safety containment around it

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now the glove box also gets used for a

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lot of other experiments if you've been

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following what launched on on space

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explorer with our printer there was the

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road and habitat there's a bunch of

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other experiments so we're basically in

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the waiting line to get into the glove

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box and so it should be it should be

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really soon and you know fingers crossed

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so we started seeing parts printed in

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the near future okay I have a question

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actually about the parts and you you

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touch upon it a little bit so you've

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been thinking about not only you know

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every which way and being able to print

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but my experience with my cheap little

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printer and we don't use abs because ma

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I have no environmental control in my

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office some days 100 degrees in

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sometimes it's 50 so we use PLA but it

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with either technology and your I know

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your you've thought about this is that

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you get these threads and you get and

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sometimes the parts need to be polished

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and things like that so I assume that

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you're addressing those because can't be

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you know sanding stuff on the space

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station and how that stuff go everywhere

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so good point yeah making making the

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parts a little more perfect that the

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ones I'm printing must be part of your

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strategy yeah it's a it's a good

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question Carol it's something that

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anybody who's working with 3d printers

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today already understands so um we had

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to address that from in several

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different ways the the fact is is we

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can't have a printer that is it is

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breaking off little pieces of plastic

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and letting it float around because at

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the moment the Astron opens the door of

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the printer and those pieces start

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floating out they get stuck in all the

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nooks and crannies of the space station

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so we've built it's a really

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sophisticated type of environmental

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control it's something that can recycle

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the the harmful gases being created so

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you know off gassing of things like

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styrene that come out of a print but it

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also captures

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particulates and it controls the the

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temperature of the print volume so so

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you know the end of the day the best way

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to get a really good print is to control

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that volume have the right temperature

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settings and things like that um used we

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mentioned this briefly and Scott asked

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you about this also about the the

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testing that was done how long did you

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guys I mean what was it like in the in

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the vomit comet to to test all of this

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stuff and was it difficult to get

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everything set up in there and do the

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testing um yeah so there's a lot of fun

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stuff I can say about the the weightless

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wonder I don't have like yeah honestly

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like my the one thing I always say to

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anyone whenever I talk about this is if

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you ever get the chance to go do it this

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is being weightless is it's one of the

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best experience I've ever felt I've um

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through this test program we've done

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with NASA I've now spent an entire hour

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of my life being weightless it's a

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really quick weight loss program if you

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need one so do your evo zipper its

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harbors come right back on yeah twenty

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seconds of being weightless and then

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next 20 seconds you're about twice your

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weight so it's a reasonable it's a

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really incredible experience being in

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being weightless you you realize that

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you have a new dimension you can there's

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no such thing as down anymore it's just

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it's wild to let your you know to

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experience that but for us we ended

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design we had also be doing real science

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so we build our experiment specifically

541
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to make sure that it could run is

542
00:21:56,410 --> 00:21:53,840
autonomously as possible so that if any

543
00:21:58,450 --> 00:21:56,420
of us were maybe having too much fun or

544
00:22:02,830 --> 00:21:58,460
maybe not having enough fun and getting

545
00:22:04,420 --> 00:22:02,840
sick directly logo keep going so um you

546
00:22:06,670 --> 00:22:04,430
know the good thing about 3d printers is

547
00:22:08,260 --> 00:22:06,680
you can you know usually turn them on

548
00:22:11,260 --> 00:22:08,270
and they just keep you know they do

549
00:22:14,470 --> 00:22:11,270
their job so we built the experiments so

550
00:22:16,750 --> 00:22:14,480
that it's basically if we roll the video

551
00:22:18,460 --> 00:22:16,760
you'll see it maybe we already did roll

552
00:22:21,730 --> 00:22:18,470
yeah but I'm living in let's go ahead

553
00:22:24,190 --> 00:22:21,740
and do this uh jeez Kelly of Kelly I can

554
00:22:26,500 --> 00:22:24,200
talk about why while I goes is that okay

555
00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:26,510
yeah yeah yeah go ahead Kelly's got it

556
00:22:32,530 --> 00:22:30,710
up I think yeah narrate this so so

557
00:22:37,420 --> 00:22:32,540
you'll see the box on the left it's our

558
00:22:39,460 --> 00:22:37,430
experiment box it holds about three to

559
00:22:42,490 --> 00:22:39,470
four different experiments at a time so

560
00:22:45,010 --> 00:22:42,500
we designed it really specifically to be

561
00:22:47,200 --> 00:22:45,020
modular we constantly every every we do

562
00:22:50,050 --> 00:22:47,210
our flight we get down we fix something

563
00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:50,060
we put in a new experiment and it's part

564
00:22:54,940 --> 00:22:52,610
of our philosophy as a company that it's

565
00:22:58,180 --> 00:22:54,950
important to iterate early and iterate

566
00:23:00,630 --> 00:22:58,190
often so it's probably too that credit

567
00:23:03,490 --> 00:23:00,640
that we have Hardware in space only a

568
00:23:06,670 --> 00:23:03,500
year after kicking off the actual flight

569
00:23:09,850 --> 00:23:06,680
mission with NASA so iterating quickly

570
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:09,860
is important to us so we did like I said

571
00:23:13,690 --> 00:23:12,050
over three hours of total zero gravity

572
00:23:16,210 --> 00:23:13,700
time but we've tested dozens of

573
00:23:19,810 --> 00:23:16,220
different experiments and and tweak

574
00:23:22,450 --> 00:23:19,820
things as we go so that's the experiment

575
00:23:25,090 --> 00:23:22,460
box you'll see that it's really quick

576
00:23:27,970 --> 00:23:25,100
you get like 20 seconds of zero-g and

577
00:23:30,070 --> 00:23:27,980
then you're back into 2g and the way we

578
00:23:31,680 --> 00:23:30,080
we figured it out we actually in the

579
00:23:34,630 --> 00:23:31,690
beginning we were we were building

580
00:23:36,400 --> 00:23:34,640
software that would a motion sensors

581
00:23:39,760 --> 00:23:36,410
that would turn the printer pause the

582
00:23:42,670 --> 00:23:39,770
printer between the 2g pull outs so they

583
00:23:44,200 --> 00:23:42,680
would only print during 0g and we got

584
00:23:46,270 --> 00:23:44,210
some useful data but then we realized

585
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:46,280
that it would be way better if we could

586
00:23:50,440 --> 00:23:48,170
just turn the printer on when we start

587
00:23:52,390 --> 00:23:50,450
flying and then turn it off when we land

588
00:23:54,700 --> 00:23:52,400
at the runway and just have the printer

589
00:23:57,250 --> 00:23:54,710
print the whole time without any problem

590
00:23:58,930 --> 00:23:57,260
so at the end of the day when we had

591
00:24:00,910 --> 00:23:58,940
figured out is a way to make these

592
00:24:03,580 --> 00:24:00,920
printers just operate in zero gravity

593
00:24:06,010 --> 00:24:03,590
but also in 2 g's and everywhere in

594
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:06,020
between so it's that's why I was saying

595
00:24:10,990 --> 00:24:08,170
earlier it's a very rugged printer that

596
00:24:13,510 --> 00:24:11,000
it was just part of our the way we

597
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:13,520
tested it was it was made it easier for

598
00:24:18,460 --> 00:24:16,250
us to do it that way but now we have we

599
00:24:20,440 --> 00:24:18,470
call it gravity independent 3d printing

600
00:24:22,270 --> 00:24:20,450
it's not just a zero-g printer I like

601
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:22,280
that you can print anywhere and it

602
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:24,050
actually turns out to be really

603
00:24:30,130 --> 00:24:26,930
beneficial on our end because we have a

604
00:24:30,649 --> 00:24:30,140
3d printer in our lab that is basically

605
00:24:32,599 --> 00:24:30,659
I

606
00:24:37,039 --> 00:24:32,609
nicole the one on the space station and

607
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:37,049
because gravity doesn't really cause an

608
00:24:41,450 --> 00:24:39,450
issue in the printing process that means

609
00:24:43,729 --> 00:24:41,460
that anything we print in our lab should

610
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:43,739
be just the same as how prints on the

611
00:24:48,259 --> 00:24:45,450
space station so we have a really good

612
00:24:49,369 --> 00:24:48,269
comparison and it allows people to come

613
00:24:53,180 --> 00:24:49,379
in who want to print on Space Station

614
00:24:54,649 --> 00:24:53,190
try it out on our printer first cool

615
00:24:57,229 --> 00:24:54,659
okay we got a lot of questions coming in

616
00:24:58,969 --> 00:24:57,239
from the QA applet John Jonathan I'm

617
00:25:01,060 --> 00:24:58,979
going to get to your follow-up in just a

618
00:25:04,759 --> 00:25:01,070
minute but Rebecca Rodriguez is asking

619
00:25:06,769 --> 00:25:04,769
has regolith with additives been

620
00:25:10,239 --> 00:25:06,779
considered for feedstock in the long run

621
00:25:13,849 --> 00:25:10,249
is that part of the NASA vision oh

622
00:25:15,379 --> 00:25:13,859
that's a cool run Rebecca we you know

623
00:25:17,029 --> 00:25:15,389
it's definitely part of the maiden space

624
00:25:19,729 --> 00:25:17,039
decision and I would say it's part of

625
00:25:23,509 --> 00:25:19,739
NASA's as well you can find you can find

626
00:25:27,259 --> 00:25:23,519
some things NASA's done in terms of ice

627
00:25:28,609 --> 00:25:27,269
are you and and regular printing and

628
00:25:31,729 --> 00:25:28,619
things like that but I'll tell you a

629
00:25:33,619 --> 00:25:31,739
little bit about what we've done we a

630
00:25:35,899 --> 00:25:33,629
little over a year ago as we were

631
00:25:37,460 --> 00:25:35,909
building our 3d printer for space we we

632
00:25:40,369 --> 00:25:37,470
wondered could we make our printer

633
00:25:42,950 --> 00:25:40,379
actually print with regular so we took

634
00:25:44,389 --> 00:25:42,960
the basically the same exact printer

635
00:25:48,019 --> 00:25:44,399
that's on the space station and we

636
00:25:50,839 --> 00:25:48,029
modified it so that it could so they can

637
00:25:55,039 --> 00:25:50,849
print something of like a composite like

638
00:25:59,419 --> 00:25:55,049
a concrete but we used a lunar simulate

639
00:26:01,639 --> 00:25:59,429
so JSC 1a we mix it with with a binder

640
00:26:02,899 --> 00:26:01,649
and a binder that actually we could

641
00:26:05,359 --> 00:26:02,909
produce on the moon if we were living

642
00:26:07,190 --> 00:26:05,369
there and then with a really small

643
00:26:10,310 --> 00:26:07,200
amount of water that theoretically you

644
00:26:12,529 --> 00:26:10,320
could harvest from lunar soil so the IDS

645
00:26:15,019 --> 00:26:12,539
completely is our are you is you get the

646
00:26:17,299 --> 00:26:15,029
dirt you get the you grow your your

647
00:26:19,249 --> 00:26:17,309
binder and you get the water and we we

648
00:26:22,039 --> 00:26:19,259
made our printer print those samples so

649
00:26:25,430 --> 00:26:22,049
um you know we've printed these really

650
00:26:27,080 --> 00:26:25,440
little bricks basically of regolith but

651
00:26:29,299 --> 00:26:27,090
imagine just scale up the printer in

652
00:26:33,049 --> 00:26:29,309
size put it on the moon and and add some

653
00:26:35,299 --> 00:26:33,059
other subsystems to harvest resources

654
00:26:38,839 --> 00:26:35,309
and whatnot and we you have the ability

655
00:26:40,849 --> 00:26:38,849
to actually build you know bricks on the

656
00:26:43,730 --> 00:26:40,859
moon and we think that's cool because

657
00:26:46,250 --> 00:26:43,740
what this would enable is yeah

658
00:26:47,990 --> 00:26:46,260
robotic Commission get to the point

659
00:26:49,430 --> 00:26:48,000
where before you send humans you've

660
00:26:52,370 --> 00:26:49,440
already sent a robot that built them a

661
00:26:56,000 --> 00:26:52,380
habitat that's amazing that's good

662
00:26:57,830 --> 00:26:56,010
question Rebecca thank you so Philip

663
00:26:59,930 --> 00:26:57,840
keen on the Q&A app is also asking

664
00:27:01,910 --> 00:26:59,940
question I'd like to know as well have

665
00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:01,920
you think hi Jason have you figured out

666
00:27:06,220 --> 00:27:03,809
the price for researchers to use the

667
00:27:09,460 --> 00:27:06,230
commercial printer when it gets there

668
00:27:14,540 --> 00:27:09,470
it's gonna cost to do use this thing

669
00:27:15,860 --> 00:27:14,550
sell a good question not surprised we

670
00:27:20,419 --> 00:27:15,870
know we know each other that's a rice

671
00:27:24,110 --> 00:27:20,429
field but yeah so you know him okay yes

672
00:27:26,299 --> 00:27:24,120
so this is this is one of those golden

673
00:27:29,570 --> 00:27:26,309
questions people people are ready to use

674
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:29,580
the printer we've got a lot of people

675
00:27:34,360 --> 00:27:31,770
actually kind of lined up with their

676
00:27:37,880 --> 00:27:34,370
ideas and and and parts ready to print

677
00:27:41,180 --> 00:27:37,890
the pricing question is not public yet

678
00:27:44,690 --> 00:27:41,190
but what I can say is that it's that

679
00:27:47,030 --> 00:27:44,700
it's extremely reasonable we've it were

680
00:27:48,590 --> 00:27:47,040
definitely like at the end of the day

681
00:27:53,240 --> 00:27:48,600
what we're doing and what we want to do

682
00:27:55,040 --> 00:27:53,250
is make it so that a much larger group

683
00:27:57,680 --> 00:27:55,050
of people have access to space than

684
00:27:59,150 --> 00:27:57,690
previously if we can't do that then we

685
00:28:01,669 --> 00:27:59,160
don't feel like we've accomplished our

686
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:01,679
mission because the at the end of the

687
00:28:06,950 --> 00:28:04,890
day space to is is pretty prohibitive

688
00:28:10,220 --> 00:28:06,960
it's expensive it's costly it's why it's

689
00:28:12,710 --> 00:28:10,230
largely been a government-run industry

690
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:12,720
but we feel like if we can if we can

691
00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:14,490
make it more accessible we'll start to

692
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:16,290
see innovation happen like we haven't

693
00:28:21,980 --> 00:28:19,290
seen before in space so for all the

694
00:28:24,080 --> 00:28:21,990
individuals the researchers the small

695
00:28:27,410 --> 00:28:24,090
companies out there using the printer

696
00:28:29,210 --> 00:28:27,420
will not be you know it will be within

697
00:28:31,580 --> 00:28:29,220
the cost range that that can be

698
00:28:33,950 --> 00:28:31,590
affording okay well I don't related note

699
00:28:35,810 --> 00:28:33,960
then it would seem to me like you're

700
00:28:37,310 --> 00:28:35,820
going to have to do kind of like what we

701
00:28:38,419 --> 00:28:37,320
do at the Institute for deciding who

702
00:28:40,910 --> 00:28:38,429
gets to use the Hubble Space Telescope

703
00:28:42,919 --> 00:28:40,920
we have a time allocation committee wut

704
00:28:45,049 --> 00:28:42,929
m8 way there certain criterion that the

705
00:28:47,330 --> 00:28:45,059
scientists use to decide what what to

706
00:28:49,310 --> 00:28:47,340
give Hubble time to what are you going

707
00:28:51,020 --> 00:28:49,320
to do how are you going to decide who

708
00:28:54,250 --> 00:28:51,030
gets to use it what are the criterion

709
00:28:57,470 --> 00:28:54,260
like any have you thought about that yet

710
00:29:00,799 --> 00:28:57,480
uh yeah we're we're actually working

711
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:00,809
nasa work with NASA for most of these

712
00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:02,970
things and this one's a pretty important

713
00:29:11,030 --> 00:29:08,370
one because you know nASA has you know

714
00:29:12,110 --> 00:29:11,040
lots of processes for what can fly on

715
00:29:16,130 --> 00:29:12,120
the space station there's a lot of

716
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:16,140
safety processes there too so what we've

717
00:29:19,610 --> 00:29:17,850
had to do you know we've created a

718
00:29:22,789 --> 00:29:19,620
completely new way to get hardware there

719
00:29:25,039 --> 00:29:22,799
and the question that it has to be asked

720
00:29:26,750 --> 00:29:25,049
is well if you know if you want to send

721
00:29:28,460 --> 00:29:26,760
a wrench to the space station today that

722
00:29:31,370 --> 00:29:28,470
wrench has to go through testing on the

723
00:29:32,510 --> 00:29:31,380
ground it goes to a safety review panel

724
00:29:35,270 --> 00:29:32,520
who make sure it's safe for the

725
00:29:37,400 --> 00:29:35,280
astronauts so what do you do when that

726
00:29:39,320 --> 00:29:37,410
wrench is printed in space how do you

727
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:39,330
know that you actually printed the thing

728
00:29:44,750 --> 00:29:41,610
that you wanted to print so we've been

729
00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:44,760
developing kind of a new process that we

730
00:29:48,830 --> 00:29:46,650
can that we work with NASA on to make

731
00:29:51,049 --> 00:29:48,840
sure that whatever we build is is the

732
00:29:52,850 --> 00:29:51,059
thing we want to build but it's that

733
00:29:56,570 --> 00:29:52,860
process it will start to build the queue

734
00:29:58,880 --> 00:29:56,580
of who gets who prints first but aside

735
00:30:02,930 --> 00:29:58,890
from that it's really like a lot of it

736
00:30:05,090 --> 00:30:02,940
is is you know first come for a servant

737
00:30:07,700 --> 00:30:05,100
way who comes to us and is ready to go

738
00:30:11,539 --> 00:30:07,710
and we have a queue of people lined up

739
00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:11,549
ready to print so go ahead ready for you

740
00:30:17,510 --> 00:30:15,450
know open invitation to use the printer

741
00:30:20,270 --> 00:30:17,520
you you mentioned something that

742
00:30:22,460 --> 00:30:20,280
actually had a question about was when

743
00:30:24,620 --> 00:30:22,470
you're going to be printing things in

744
00:30:29,000 --> 00:30:24,630
zero gravity of microgravity out there

745
00:30:31,220 --> 00:30:29,010
is it like how let's see what's the word

746
00:30:32,900 --> 00:30:31,230
I want to use here how accurate are you

747
00:30:34,970 --> 00:30:32,910
going to be able to rate it as I know

748
00:30:36,919 --> 00:30:34,980
when we're sending stuff up into space

749
00:30:38,030 --> 00:30:36,929
especially for science experiments we

750
00:30:40,970 --> 00:30:38,040
need to make sure that they're

751
00:30:42,260 --> 00:30:40,980
rigorously tested too yes withstand

752
00:30:43,940 --> 00:30:42,270
launch which you're going to be able to

753
00:30:46,010 --> 00:30:43,950
get through but to make sure that it's

754
00:30:47,539 --> 00:30:46,020
actually scientifically accurate for

755
00:30:49,970 --> 00:30:47,549
what you're going to be using it for

756
00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:49,980
right now are you just looking for you

757
00:30:54,799 --> 00:30:52,770
know a scaffolding or something I like

758
00:30:57,289 --> 00:30:54,809
that more rugged and then in the future

759
00:30:59,299 --> 00:30:57,299
be able to more fine-tuned it or is

760
00:31:01,549 --> 00:30:59,309
there a way that you'll be able to rate

761
00:31:06,110 --> 00:31:01,559
it for different scientific levels of

762
00:31:08,899 --> 00:31:06,120
accuracy yeah the answer is is yes the

763
00:31:11,450 --> 00:31:08,909
uh you know there's a couple ways to

764
00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:11,460
look at we have there's we have a

765
00:31:15,260 --> 00:31:13,110
since we control the printer from the

766
00:31:17,450 --> 00:31:15,270
ground we have the ability to control a

767
00:31:20,120 --> 00:31:17,460
lot of the settings so in terms of

768
00:31:21,980 --> 00:31:20,130
quality resolution things like that we

769
00:31:25,100 --> 00:31:21,990
have control over that so depending on

770
00:31:29,060 --> 00:31:25,110
the demands of that part we can control

771
00:31:30,590 --> 00:31:29,070
how well it prints and and so on um but

772
00:31:33,889 --> 00:31:30,600
it's important to remember that this is

773
00:31:35,389 --> 00:31:33,899
the first step I mean this is like the

774
00:31:37,940 --> 00:31:35,399
tip of the iceberg for space

775
00:31:39,740 --> 00:31:37,950
manufacturing so as made in space moves

776
00:31:41,510 --> 00:31:39,750
forward with technology development it

777
00:31:44,090 --> 00:31:41,520
will get better and better and better so

778
00:31:47,060 --> 00:31:44,100
today it does a percentage of things

779
00:31:48,950 --> 00:31:47,070
NASA estimated that this printer can do

780
00:31:50,380 --> 00:31:48,960
thirty percent of all the parks that

781
00:31:53,690 --> 00:31:50,390
have already broken on the space station

782
00:31:55,970 --> 00:31:53,700
so actually a surprisingly good number

783
00:31:58,639 --> 00:31:55,980
of things could be fixed with a 3d

784
00:32:00,200 --> 00:31:58,649
printer like this but but we're moving

785
00:32:01,639 --> 00:32:00,210
forward towards you know much more than

786
00:32:05,060 --> 00:32:01,649
that percentage and we want to get to

787
00:32:07,510 --> 00:32:05,070
the point where you know that's not just

788
00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:07,520
for fixing and upkeep and crew

789
00:32:12,560 --> 00:32:11,010
utilization is for experimenters to

790
00:32:14,690 --> 00:32:12,570
build better experiments you know today

791
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:14,700
we when we put an experiment on the

792
00:32:17,720 --> 00:32:16,110
space station we have to launch it

793
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:17,730
already hoping that it just works

794
00:32:21,409 --> 00:32:19,770
because if it doesn't it would cost

795
00:32:23,539 --> 00:32:21,419
millions of dollars ever to launch the

796
00:32:25,490 --> 00:32:23,549
next version so we were working with

797
00:32:27,649 --> 00:32:25,500
experimenters now to design their

798
00:32:29,450 --> 00:32:27,659
experiments so that they're already 3d

799
00:32:32,360 --> 00:32:29,460
printed so that when something changes

800
00:32:34,220 --> 00:32:32,370
if you need a larger microfluidic

801
00:32:36,350 --> 00:32:34,230
channel or you need a lot of you know a

802
00:32:37,669 --> 00:32:36,360
different size petri dish or so on you

803
00:32:39,889 --> 00:32:37,679
print that out after you've already

804
00:32:41,740 --> 00:32:39,899
tested the first one so enabling

805
00:32:44,360 --> 00:32:41,750
iteration to happen for science is

806
00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:44,370
obviously the the key towards

807
00:32:49,430 --> 00:32:47,010
breakthrough and it's those things that

808
00:32:51,680 --> 00:32:49,440
we want to you know make happen I was

809
00:32:53,779 --> 00:32:51,690
going to say that you know in discussion

810
00:32:55,909 --> 00:32:53,789
astronomers have to think in very long

811
00:32:58,039 --> 00:32:55,919
timescales about building new telescopes

812
00:33:00,680 --> 00:32:58,049
that are going to go in space and the

813
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:00,690
thought of at least 3d printing part of

814
00:33:05,210 --> 00:33:03,510
these parts for those telescopes and

815
00:33:06,950 --> 00:33:05,220
also refurbishment because we're how

816
00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:06,960
will people so we love the idea of

817
00:33:11,330 --> 00:33:09,450
having a telescope you can refurbish so

818
00:33:14,600 --> 00:33:11,340
it's very much of interest to the

819
00:33:16,940 --> 00:33:14,610
astronomical community on very relevant

820
00:33:19,639 --> 00:33:16,950
to the humble James Webb at last

821
00:33:21,950 --> 00:33:19,649
community but another thing that you

822
00:33:24,740 --> 00:33:21,960
made me think of is I know you're not

823
00:33:26,210 --> 00:33:24,750
doing it today but but remember

824
00:33:28,610 --> 00:33:26,220
we first said we were going to go to

825
00:33:31,100 --> 00:33:28,620
space remember how they said oh the

826
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:31,110
stuff you manufacture and space is going

827
00:33:35,990 --> 00:33:34,290
to be like amazing compared to what is

828
00:33:40,040 --> 00:33:36,000
made on the ground because it won't be

829
00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:40,050
constrained by gravity so I if you guys

830
00:33:45,470 --> 00:33:43,050
had discussions of things that could be

831
00:33:48,320 --> 00:33:45,480
manufactured that possibly could be of

832
00:33:51,290 --> 00:33:48,330
use to people on the ground that would

833
00:33:52,940 --> 00:33:51,300
be better manufactured in debate number

834
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:52,950
we're supposed to all have bald perfect

835
00:33:56,900 --> 00:33:54,930
ball bearings because they working

836
00:33:59,120 --> 00:33:56,910
perfectly man your final its face

837
00:34:02,600 --> 00:33:59,130
remember that I mean I'm showing my age

838
00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:02,610
but no you're I guess mine to them

839
00:34:09,230 --> 00:34:06,990
because I remember that that is a that's

840
00:34:12,909 --> 00:34:09,240
always been kind of one of the biggest

841
00:34:15,680 --> 00:34:12,919
things for us was to figure out not just

842
00:34:18,110 --> 00:34:15,690
not just what can we build in space 4

843
00:34:21,980 --> 00:34:18,120
space but what can we build in space for

844
00:34:23,869 --> 00:34:21,990
Earth and um there's definitely some

845
00:34:25,580 --> 00:34:23,879
really interesting things there you know

846
00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:25,590
obviously like you know ball bearings

847
00:34:31,430 --> 00:34:28,710
cool example but what are the things

848
00:34:33,260 --> 00:34:31,440
that you can't that you can actually use

849
00:34:35,990 --> 00:34:33,270
zero gravity to your advantage to build

850
00:34:37,909 --> 00:34:36,000
um not needing you know not needing

851
00:34:40,850 --> 00:34:37,919
things like support structure as as an

852
00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:40,860
example we've had we've had a lot of

853
00:34:46,190 --> 00:34:42,990
interests actually from people coming to

854
00:34:48,580 --> 00:34:46,200
us with ideas there most of them you

855
00:34:51,710 --> 00:34:48,590
know we we sign a lot of you know

856
00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:51,720
agreements with these groups you know

857
00:34:56,869 --> 00:34:54,060
who only talked about their ideas one of

858
00:34:58,430 --> 00:34:56,879
the more interesting ones that i can say

859
00:35:01,790 --> 00:34:58,440
a little bit about was had to do with

860
00:35:04,370 --> 00:35:01,800
fuel cell technology somebody had found

861
00:35:07,130 --> 00:35:04,380
a way to make more efficient fuel cells

862
00:35:09,950 --> 00:35:07,140
if they were manufactured in zoo and

863
00:35:13,580 --> 00:35:09,960
then bringing those parts down so so we

864
00:35:16,310 --> 00:35:13,590
think there's probably time will tell I

865
00:35:18,530 --> 00:35:16,320
think but as we as we get the machines

866
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:18,540
operating and start to learn exactly you

867
00:35:23,120 --> 00:35:19,890
know the correct material and

868
00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:23,130
resolutions and so on we'll see that

869
00:35:27,620 --> 00:35:26,130
happen okay i want to get over to

870
00:35:30,950 --> 00:35:27,630
youtube there's some comments coming in

871
00:35:33,290 --> 00:35:30,960
Craig Landon is asking any ideas as to

872
00:35:36,350 --> 00:35:33,300
how any of these materials might perform

873
00:35:38,180 --> 00:35:36,360
in solar radiation anything outside the

874
00:35:40,339 --> 00:35:38,190
ISS that is similar in

875
00:35:42,950 --> 00:35:40,349
position or due to be tested so how does

876
00:35:45,349 --> 00:35:42,960
this how does this stuff work out in

877
00:35:50,690 --> 00:35:45,359
space i mean the ring with irradiated

878
00:35:54,440 --> 00:35:50,700
environment yep um so this the the

879
00:35:57,680 --> 00:35:54,450
printer itself is it stays inside of the

880
00:36:00,260 --> 00:35:57,690
space station so it operates it you know

881
00:36:01,579 --> 00:36:00,270
in the the atmosphere of the space

882
00:36:04,760 --> 00:36:01,589
station at the pressure and the

883
00:36:07,339 --> 00:36:04,770
temperature and things like that so it's

884
00:36:08,960 --> 00:36:07,349
a you know for the sake of developing a

885
00:36:12,099 --> 00:36:08,970
printer that works in space we had to

886
00:36:14,780 --> 00:36:12,109
solve zero gravity it's the main problem

887
00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:14,790
but it's it's really the question is

888
00:36:19,490 --> 00:36:16,890
really you know how do you build parts

889
00:36:22,190 --> 00:36:19,500
that you can then take out into space so

890
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:22,200
we've you know right now the first

891
00:36:28,069 --> 00:36:24,930
printer does abs and we all know that

892
00:36:30,319 --> 00:36:28,079
ABS out gases so can what can actually

893
00:36:31,849 --> 00:36:30,329
put out in space it was there was a bee

894
00:36:33,589 --> 00:36:31,859
acid you know if it's if it's out

895
00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:33,599
gassing too much maybe you don't use it

896
00:36:38,569 --> 00:36:36,290
for very many things so that's why we

897
00:36:40,910 --> 00:36:38,579
we've been working for our second

898
00:36:42,980 --> 00:36:40,920
printer that launches next year the

899
00:36:46,190 --> 00:36:42,990
ability to do new types of materials so

900
00:36:48,349 --> 00:36:46,200
we have space qualified polymers and

901
00:36:49,819 --> 00:36:48,359
polymer composites that we can we can

902
00:36:53,390 --> 00:36:49,829
manufacture with and take them out and

903
00:36:54,559 --> 00:36:53,400
they'll work just fine so and that's you

904
00:36:56,630 --> 00:36:54,569
know there's there's still a lot of

905
00:36:58,760 --> 00:36:56,640
testing there you can do we've done a

906
00:37:00,200 --> 00:36:58,770
lot of testing the lab but there's some

907
00:37:02,450 --> 00:37:00,210
things you just can't actually know

908
00:37:06,800 --> 00:37:02,460
until you get into the actual space

909
00:37:09,260 --> 00:37:06,810
environment to test it out okay so let

910
00:37:10,670 --> 00:37:09,270
me get it let me get to back to the Q&A

911
00:37:12,710 --> 00:37:10,680
app we have jonathan peters he had a

912
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:12,720
follow-up question to his what did you

913
00:37:18,170 --> 00:37:15,930
use to make a stuff out of and he goes

914
00:37:20,089 --> 00:37:18,180
are there plans to test physical

915
00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:20,099
strength durability of objects printed

916
00:37:28,069 --> 00:37:25,530
in zero-g in different gravities um well

917
00:37:30,559 --> 00:37:28,079
what I feel like what I can say is we've

918
00:37:33,980 --> 00:37:30,569
taken the printers not just on the

919
00:37:36,380 --> 00:37:33,990
zero-gravity parabolas with NASA but

920
00:37:38,870 --> 00:37:36,390
we've also done lunar and Martian so the

921
00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:38,880
art printer itself actually already is

922
00:37:44,630 --> 00:37:42,810
designed for on the moon and on Mars ok

923
00:37:47,569 --> 00:37:44,640
young good question thanks Jonathan

924
00:37:50,390 --> 00:37:47,579
Phillip keen is back and he's also

925
00:37:52,069 --> 00:37:50,400
asking you have you seen the news that

926
00:37:54,049 --> 00:37:52,079
ISA that ISA will be

927
00:37:55,849 --> 00:37:54,059
testing metal casting machines on a

928
00:37:57,410 --> 00:37:55,859
sounding rocket looks like they want to

929
00:38:00,769 --> 00:37:57,420
manufacture titanium parts and

930
00:38:06,699 --> 00:38:00,779
microgravity too yeah interesting stuff

931
00:38:08,839 --> 00:38:06,709
so so you know like any other good idea

932
00:38:10,880 --> 00:38:08,849
there's always going to be more than one

933
00:38:12,380 --> 00:38:10,890
group that that wants to pursue it and I

934
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:12,390
think that's important to see the

935
00:38:18,589 --> 00:38:15,930
technology advanced quickly because you

936
00:38:22,160 --> 00:38:18,599
know we started this company because we

937
00:38:24,019 --> 00:38:22,170
want humans living in space so the more

938
00:38:25,910 --> 00:38:24,029
people trying to focus on solving those

939
00:38:28,219 --> 00:38:25,920
problems better we've talked a lot with

940
00:38:31,519 --> 00:38:28,229
ISA I you know our goals really align

941
00:38:33,140 --> 00:38:31,529
well with them that for instance the

942
00:38:34,009 --> 00:38:33,150
printer that we're putting on this that

943
00:38:35,479 --> 00:38:34,019
you know the printer on the space

944
00:38:38,329 --> 00:38:35,489
station today and then definitely the

945
00:38:40,699 --> 00:38:38,339
next one is designed for anyone to use

946
00:38:43,069 --> 00:38:40,709
so that definitely goes for all the

947
00:38:45,949 --> 00:38:43,079
other space agencies already on on Space

948
00:38:51,579 --> 00:38:45,959
Station so we'll see you know II cuzn

949
00:38:54,499 --> 00:38:51,589
and Jackson and so on cool okay so um

950
00:38:55,940 --> 00:38:54,509
Eric charland is commented also he says

951
00:38:57,319 --> 00:38:55,950
gotta admire the patience of these guys

952
00:38:59,989 --> 00:38:57,329
would take me a half a second after

953
00:39:01,249 --> 00:38:59,999
receiving it to turn on a 3d printer so

954
00:39:02,779 --> 00:39:01,259
I guess that he's talked about the

955
00:39:05,180 --> 00:39:02,789
patience of the astronauts a they have

956
00:39:08,779 --> 00:39:05,190
to have to wait for the cows laughingly

957
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:08,789
we actually video you can watch a reid

958
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:11,249
wiseman right before he launched and he

959
00:39:14,120 --> 00:39:12,569
you know he's up there right now so he's

960
00:39:16,759 --> 00:39:14,130
likely the one to operate the printer

961
00:39:19,849 --> 00:39:16,769
and he was so excited about it he in

962
00:39:21,920 --> 00:39:19,859
this interview he says you know NASA

963
00:39:26,559 --> 00:39:21,930
better be careful because we're gonna

964
00:39:29,420 --> 00:39:26,569
use up all the ink he's a ball today

965
00:39:31,549 --> 00:39:29,430
that's good yeah I gotta you know to

966
00:39:32,900 --> 00:39:31,559
follow up on a comment that or the what

967
00:39:34,459 --> 00:39:32,910
carol was saying about you know

968
00:39:35,809 --> 00:39:34,469
astronomers wanting you know excited

969
00:39:37,939 --> 00:39:35,819
being excited about using this i mean

970
00:39:39,739 --> 00:39:37,949
already we're talking about you know

971
00:39:42,920 --> 00:39:39,749
after jwst the James Webb Space

972
00:39:46,999 --> 00:39:42,930
Telescope launching these giant 8 meter

973
00:39:49,249 --> 00:39:47,009
and 16 meter telescopes um I wonder you

974
00:39:50,839 --> 00:39:49,259
know for me I know that's the far future

975
00:39:54,349 --> 00:39:50,849
but that would be the kind of thing that

976
00:39:56,059 --> 00:39:54,359
I think it would excite me about this as

977
00:39:59,120 --> 00:39:56,069
well as not only can we go into space

978
00:40:00,410 --> 00:39:59,130
and we can you know manufacture parts

979
00:40:02,329 --> 00:40:00,420
and things like that up there and live

980
00:40:04,580 --> 00:40:02,339
off the land as you say but we can also

981
00:40:06,440 --> 00:40:04,590
put things up in space that are

982
00:40:08,960 --> 00:40:06,450
really hard to put up there like 16

983
00:40:15,110 --> 00:40:08,970
meter telescopes just being able to

984
00:40:18,320 --> 00:40:15,120
print one out point would be yep so you

985
00:40:20,750 --> 00:40:18,330
look for the history of humans putting

986
00:40:22,610 --> 00:40:20,760
things into space we've only we've done

987
00:40:25,400 --> 00:40:22,620
it exactly the same way we've always put

988
00:40:27,290 --> 00:40:25,410
things on the top of chemical rockets

989
00:40:29,210 --> 00:40:27,300
and launch them there that obviously

990
00:40:30,920 --> 00:40:29,220
puts the you know a lot of burden

991
00:40:33,290 --> 00:40:30,930
there's like it we already mentioned

992
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:33,300
there's the constraints of the G load

993
00:40:37,610 --> 00:40:35,250
and the vibration load but the other

994
00:40:41,540 --> 00:40:37,620
thing is we're constrained to the volume

995
00:40:43,610 --> 00:40:41,550
of the fairing of spacecraft so so we've

996
00:40:45,980 --> 00:40:43,620
reached we've done a lot in terms of

997
00:40:48,380 --> 00:40:45,990
getting really clever about how we build

998
00:40:51,140 --> 00:40:48,390
things that can fit into a rocket and

999
00:40:52,640 --> 00:40:51,150
then deploy open well that's yet JW seas

1000
00:40:55,940 --> 00:40:52,650
are not prime example of that it had

1001
00:40:57,980 --> 00:40:55,950
them all folded up origami yeah one of

1002
00:41:00,350 --> 00:40:57,990
the best examples so but we've still

1003
00:41:03,710 --> 00:41:00,360
reached in in many ways to physical

1004
00:41:05,930 --> 00:41:03,720
limits of what we can do so this the

1005
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:05,940
idea of space manufacturing gets around

1006
00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:08,730
that problem entirely we we can remove

1007
00:41:14,390 --> 00:41:10,950
the constraint of the launch fairing and

1008
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:14,400
start to build things that don't have to

1009
00:41:18,770 --> 00:41:16,770
rely on deployment mechanisms and and

1010
00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:18,780
other things like that just build the

1011
00:41:23,240 --> 00:41:21,090
the large shapes that you needed to

1012
00:41:25,040 --> 00:41:23,250
begin with so you said they're not

1013
00:41:27,590 --> 00:41:25,050
starting yet you're waiting for your

1014
00:41:28,790 --> 00:41:27,600
turn in the glove box um how are you

1015
00:41:31,100 --> 00:41:28,800
going to let people how are we going to

1016
00:41:32,990 --> 00:41:31,110
know that this is but you know what's

1017
00:41:35,180 --> 00:41:33,000
the best way for us to keep in track

1018
00:41:37,810 --> 00:41:35,190
keep track of what what's going on in

1019
00:41:41,150 --> 00:41:37,820
the status is well uh twitter feed

1020
00:41:43,970 --> 00:41:41,160
follow our twitter i'm at made in space

1021
00:41:47,210 --> 00:41:43,980
we we're keeping keeping everybody up to

1022
00:41:50,090 --> 00:41:47,220
date there and our facebook it's a we

1023
00:41:53,210 --> 00:41:50,100
are made in space so our social media is

1024
00:41:55,910 --> 00:41:53,220
is really um you know when we hear news

1025
00:41:58,070 --> 00:41:55,920
we share it so that's probably number

1026
00:42:01,420 --> 00:41:58,080
one NASA is doing a lot of work there to

1027
00:42:04,070 --> 00:42:01,430
to to let everybody know about this so

1028
00:42:06,620 --> 00:42:04,080
they'll be you know we expect that it

1029
00:42:09,410 --> 00:42:06,630
will be a good amount of heads up before

1030
00:42:13,550 --> 00:42:09,420
the printer starts printing this is this

1031
00:42:17,120 --> 00:42:13,560
is a it's an incredibly historical event

1032
00:42:18,260 --> 00:42:17,130
for Humanity there's it's been up you

1033
00:42:20,750 --> 00:42:18,270
know this will be the first

1034
00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:20,760
time as a species we've ever made faq

1035
00:42:25,460 --> 00:42:23,010
shirt off a planet earth and we want

1036
00:42:28,580 --> 00:42:25,470
everybody to share in that occasion

1037
00:42:30,110 --> 00:42:28,590
because it's you know this is I think

1038
00:42:32,240 --> 00:42:30,120
it'll go down as a really important

1039
00:42:34,250 --> 00:42:32,250
piece in history I agree in Jonathan I

1040
00:42:35,540 --> 00:42:34,260
but Jonathan and Phillip are just you

1041
00:42:38,030 --> 00:42:35,550
guys are blowing up I thank you for all

1042
00:42:39,440 --> 00:42:38,040
the comments uh so Jonathan's like is

1043
00:42:41,570 --> 00:42:39,450
the next I beat you to this one I think

1044
00:42:44,090 --> 00:42:41,580
jonathan is the next version going to be

1045
00:42:45,710 --> 00:42:44,100
able to print glassware and if so are we

1046
00:42:47,210 --> 00:42:45,720
expecting better telescopes and we just

1047
00:42:48,800 --> 00:42:47,220
we just talked about this but what about

1048
00:42:50,590 --> 00:42:48,810
the glass part of it is that says that a

1049
00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:50,600
material that perhaps is in the future

1050
00:42:55,940 --> 00:42:54,090
so um it's a pretty cool question there

1051
00:42:57,860 --> 00:42:55,950
the quit you know like there's a few

1052
00:43:01,150 --> 00:42:57,870
pieces of that if we want to talk about

1053
00:43:03,620 --> 00:43:01,160
optics you know printing optical element

1054
00:43:05,510 --> 00:43:03,630
you know that's a tricky problem we a

1055
00:43:08,060 --> 00:43:05,520
lot of what we've done as a company as

1056
00:43:11,600 --> 00:43:08,070
we look at where technology is headed

1057
00:43:14,270 --> 00:43:11,610
and anticipate when it will be ready to

1058
00:43:17,630 --> 00:43:14,280
actually go into real applications so in

1059
00:43:20,240 --> 00:43:17,640
2010 we we realize that we could work on

1060
00:43:22,310 --> 00:43:20,250
this fdm style of 3d printing and get it

1061
00:43:24,980 --> 00:43:22,320
ready for space if you if you start

1062
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:24,990
looking at what's out there um you know

1063
00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:27,930
in industry and research for optics type

1064
00:43:32,180 --> 00:43:29,610
of printing there's still a lot of

1065
00:43:34,790 --> 00:43:32,190
challenges to overcome but it will it

1066
00:43:36,410 --> 00:43:34,800
will it will get there and until them

1067
00:43:38,690 --> 00:43:36,420
there's always things that will have to

1068
00:43:41,480 --> 00:43:38,700
launch that we just can't print up you

1069
00:43:43,730 --> 00:43:41,490
know and we can't print transistors and

1070
00:43:45,260 --> 00:43:43,740
and circuit boards and everything yet so

1071
00:43:47,060 --> 00:43:45,270
there's things that you have to launch

1072
00:43:50,450 --> 00:43:47,070
and they're things that you can print

1073
00:43:52,250 --> 00:43:50,460
over time though our view is that one

1074
00:43:54,980 --> 00:43:52,260
day everything in space will be made in

1075
00:43:56,420 --> 00:43:54,990
space and won't every at every point in

1076
00:43:58,520 --> 00:43:56,430
time there'll be something that you

1077
00:44:00,890 --> 00:43:58,530
don't have to launch because you can 3d

1078
00:44:02,630 --> 00:44:00,900
print it so if you can print it there

1079
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:02,640
you will it will just make more sense

1080
00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:04,410
and with the printer on the space

1081
00:44:07,760 --> 00:44:05,730
station day there's already something

1082
00:44:09,710 --> 00:44:07,770
that can be printed it's actually a lot

1083
00:44:11,240 --> 00:44:09,720
of things those things don't have to get

1084
00:44:13,670 --> 00:44:11,250
launched anymore and the second printer

1085
00:44:15,980 --> 00:44:13,680
will expand upon that and so on so I

1086
00:44:18,380 --> 00:44:15,990
hope it's soon that we see you know

1087
00:44:21,410 --> 00:44:18,390
optics and optical elements and things

1088
00:44:24,140 --> 00:44:21,420
like that but it's a lot of development

1089
00:44:26,180 --> 00:44:24,150
needed well personally I was gonna I was

1090
00:44:27,710 --> 00:44:26,190
just going to interject that that once

1091
00:44:30,680 --> 00:44:27,720
you've decided that you can manufacture

1092
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:30,690
in space there's no reason to you know

1093
00:44:33,980 --> 00:44:32,130
restrict yourself to one

1094
00:44:35,840 --> 00:44:33,990
sheen you can have a machine that does

1095
00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:35,850
metals and another one that does sort of

1096
00:44:40,580 --> 00:44:37,650
plastic materials so that you can

1097
00:44:43,490 --> 00:44:40,590
optimize the machine what you understand

1098
00:44:46,160 --> 00:44:43,500
the zero g or Moulton you know if G

1099
00:44:47,840 --> 00:44:46,170
independent stuff you can think about oh

1100
00:44:49,550 --> 00:44:47,850
I need metal parts over here and they

1101
00:44:51,500 --> 00:44:49,560
need plastic parts over here and I need

1102
00:44:53,750 --> 00:44:51,510
chocolate over here and then you can

1103
00:44:55,790 --> 00:44:53,760
print what you want I'm always a jungle

1104
00:45:00,580 --> 00:44:55,800
yeah i would i would want one that

1105
00:45:02,660 --> 00:45:00,590
prince chief editors yeah you would

1106
00:45:04,570 --> 00:45:02,670
especially if i'm in Mars and i haven't

1107
00:45:07,310 --> 00:45:04,580
had a had a cheeseburger in a while

1108
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:07,320
Scott I want to meet me ask you am I am

1109
00:45:12,560 --> 00:45:09,690
I missing any comments or questions here

1110
00:45:14,330 --> 00:45:12,570
that I think we've got a all of them

1111
00:45:16,460 --> 00:45:14,340
taking care for the most part of ones

1112
00:45:20,780 --> 00:45:16,470
that we've already answered before they

1113
00:45:23,960 --> 00:45:20,790
ask them so yeah yeah okay um let's see

1114
00:45:26,930 --> 00:45:23,970
ask about the bit so we had a video but

1115
00:45:29,600 --> 00:45:26,940
we had some other imagery oh yeah we

1116
00:45:31,880 --> 00:45:29,610
have it would it would be nice to take a

1117
00:45:33,470 --> 00:45:31,890
look at some of those yeah if you can

1118
00:45:36,820 --> 00:45:33,480
can you put up some of those and what

1119
00:45:40,010 --> 00:45:36,830
have Jason talk about design photos

1120
00:45:42,980 --> 00:45:40,020
moment it shot up for the first printer

1121
00:45:44,900 --> 00:45:42,990
it's a nice like you can see some

1122
00:45:48,500 --> 00:45:44,910
hardware in the background and yeah

1123
00:45:50,900 --> 00:45:48,510
there it is so this is this is actually

1124
00:45:54,160 --> 00:45:50,910
the printer in the foreground that's the

1125
00:45:56,960 --> 00:45:54,170
printer that is on Space Station today

1126
00:45:59,300 --> 00:45:56,970
and then in the background is the

1127
00:46:01,730 --> 00:45:59,310
microgravity science glovebox the msg

1128
00:46:03,500 --> 00:46:01,740
that's what we that's where what the

1129
00:46:06,080 --> 00:46:03,510
printer goes in the space station so

1130
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:06,090
this picture was taken at NASA Marshall

1131
00:46:13,370 --> 00:46:10,410
flight Marshall Flight Center so at

1132
00:46:15,410 --> 00:46:13,380
Marshall that's that's where our main

1133
00:46:18,230 --> 00:46:15,420
contract goes through it's our

1134
00:46:20,660 --> 00:46:18,240
partnership with NASA and we work really

1135
00:46:23,330 --> 00:46:20,670
hand-in-hand with NASA Marshall to

1136
00:46:27,680 --> 00:46:23,340
develop this entire first 3d printer

1137
00:46:29,090 --> 00:46:27,690
program so made in space does the design

1138
00:46:32,030 --> 00:46:29,100
and development of the hardware and

1139
00:46:35,510 --> 00:46:32,040
software electronics and so on and then

1140
00:46:37,580 --> 00:46:35,520
NASA Marshall helped with the testing

1141
00:46:40,190 --> 00:46:37,590
and the qualification of the system as

1142
00:46:42,470 --> 00:46:40,200
well as that's where the payload

1143
00:46:45,660 --> 00:46:42,480
Operations Center is for Space Station

1144
00:46:49,770 --> 00:46:45,670
so we are able to go there and test

1145
00:46:53,240 --> 00:46:49,780
out the printer in the simulated msg

1146
00:46:55,530 --> 00:46:53,250
scenario so really good partnership and

1147
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:55,540
it's one of those examples of how

1148
00:47:00,839 --> 00:46:57,490
government and commercial works really

1149
00:47:02,730 --> 00:47:00,849
well together okay one show there we go

1150
00:47:07,410 --> 00:47:02,740
here's another one now here's a close-up

1151
00:47:09,180 --> 00:47:07,420
of of the printer actually looks really

1152
00:47:12,030 --> 00:47:09,190
close up on my screen I can only see

1153
00:47:14,490 --> 00:47:12,040
part of it but uh so let me pop it out a

1154
00:47:18,059 --> 00:47:14,500
couple things here on the left is a

1155
00:47:20,490 --> 00:47:18,069
smaller box and there you go so that the

1156
00:47:23,460 --> 00:47:20,500
box on the left is our electronics and

1157
00:47:27,240 --> 00:47:23,470
computer that's a it's our power supply

1158
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:27,250
it's the notes that the all the

1159
00:47:31,980 --> 00:47:29,770
electronics and the sensor packages and

1160
00:47:35,490 --> 00:47:31,990
things like that that's what plugs into

1161
00:47:36,839 --> 00:47:35,500
the glove box and then multiple then we

1162
00:47:38,940 --> 00:47:36,849
have two ports that plug into the

1163
00:47:41,549 --> 00:47:38,950
printer so you can see the switch on the

1164
00:47:42,839 --> 00:47:41,559
back left of the electronics box that

1165
00:47:44,819 --> 00:47:42,849
like I was saying it's the only switch

1166
00:47:48,089 --> 00:47:44,829
on the entire printer the entire thing

1167
00:47:50,670 --> 00:47:48,099
is definitely looks a little special

1168
00:47:53,730 --> 00:47:50,680
compared to a printer here you're used

1169
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:53,740
to seeing the surface it's made of

1170
00:48:00,870 --> 00:47:56,410
aerospace grade aluminum that's coated

1171
00:48:03,660 --> 00:48:00,880
in nickel plated its nickel plated so

1172
00:48:06,089 --> 00:48:03,670
that that makes it safe to use on Space

1173
00:48:09,990 --> 00:48:06,099
Station it doesn't scratch it doesn't

1174
00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:10,000
leak EMI um feedstock cartridge is that

1175
00:48:13,890 --> 00:48:12,010
box on the left of the printer that

1176
00:48:16,289 --> 00:48:13,900
comes in and out so it's replaceable and

1177
00:48:18,870 --> 00:48:16,299
then there's a door so the door has a

1178
00:48:20,309 --> 00:48:18,880
window and there's cameras it will look

1179
00:48:22,530 --> 00:48:20,319
through the window while we print but

1180
00:48:25,319 --> 00:48:22,540
the entire printer is is closed in so it

1181
00:48:27,089 --> 00:48:25,329
keeps the outgassing inside of there and

1182
00:48:31,140 --> 00:48:27,099
we who are environmental environmental

1183
00:48:33,030 --> 00:48:31,150
control inside the box great yep

1184
00:48:38,640 --> 00:48:33,040
anything else we have do you have

1185
00:48:41,069 --> 00:48:38,650
anything else rkelly nope oh that's the

1186
00:48:46,530 --> 00:48:41,079
song yeah so let me know part coming off

1187
00:48:48,630 --> 00:48:46,540
a printer a basically the printer remove

1188
00:48:51,660 --> 00:48:48,640
is you know the entire print rate comes

1189
00:48:53,609 --> 00:48:51,670
in and out we've made every step along

1190
00:48:56,250 --> 00:48:53,619
the way we've worked with NASA to really

1191
00:48:58,800 --> 00:48:56,260
make it easy for the astronauts to use

1192
00:49:01,140 --> 00:48:58,810
and to reduce the time spent using so

1193
00:49:03,810 --> 00:49:01,150
what you know when we first started most

1194
00:49:05,610 --> 00:49:03,820
most people think while they build a 3d

1195
00:49:08,790 --> 00:49:05,620
printer for for the astronauts and let's

1196
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:08,800
have all these you know the gizmos and

1197
00:49:15,210 --> 00:49:12,010
all these good thing features but it

1198
00:49:17,340 --> 00:49:15,220
really had to be really simple the

1199
00:49:19,080 --> 00:49:17,350
astronauts time is depending how you

1200
00:49:23,130 --> 00:49:19,090
look at it it's about fifty thousand

1201
00:49:25,700 --> 00:49:23,140
dollars an hour so making it complex and

1202
00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:25,710
arby's not something we could do so

1203
00:49:31,710 --> 00:49:27,930
actually the printer is really easy

1204
00:49:34,170 --> 00:49:31,720
doesn't require calibration so Carol you

1205
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:34,180
know everything your your desktop

1206
00:49:38,040 --> 00:49:35,170
printer you probably have to calibrate

1207
00:49:40,560 --> 00:49:38,050
it make sure your Z alignments correct

1208
00:49:44,070 --> 00:49:40,570
and the print trays absolutely yeah we

1209
00:49:47,400 --> 00:49:44,080
have stds we don't do that the printer

1210
00:49:49,500 --> 00:49:47,410
is just built to not need the

1211
00:49:51,450 --> 00:49:49,510
calibration it launches calibrated and

1212
00:49:53,610 --> 00:49:51,460
it will get its writ once they put it in

1213
00:49:56,100 --> 00:49:53,620
they'll turn it on and all they have to

1214
00:49:59,220 --> 00:49:56,110
do is plug it in turn it on and we do

1215
00:50:04,520 --> 00:49:59,230
everything else okay I so at the end of

1216
00:50:12,630 --> 00:50:09,830
without we printed it printed out oh

1217
00:50:14,160 --> 00:50:12,640
yeah bill Keane's gotik Mickey mechanics

1218
00:50:16,320 --> 00:50:14,170
a good point here when he comments and

1219
00:50:17,940 --> 00:50:16,330
you know traditionally glass and mirrors

1220
00:50:19,260 --> 00:50:17,950
have been made with gravity dependent

1221
00:50:20,820 --> 00:50:19,270
processes that's a good point the

1222
00:50:22,860 --> 00:50:20,830
figures and mirrors and things like that

1223
00:50:26,280 --> 00:50:22,870
are all more or less dependent on

1224
00:50:28,620 --> 00:50:26,290
gravity and the release the process is

1225
00:50:30,570 --> 00:50:28,630
used to make those figures so that that

1226
00:50:33,330 --> 00:50:30,580
is going to be an interesting you don't

1227
00:50:35,430 --> 00:50:33,340
have to because the optical design if

1228
00:50:37,620 --> 00:50:35,440
you make a perfect optical design you

1229
00:50:41,010 --> 00:50:37,630
can have a perfect object the problem is

1230
00:50:43,770 --> 00:50:41,020
that designers have to worry about the

1231
00:50:46,200 --> 00:50:43,780
gravity effect in the materials will sag

1232
00:50:48,540 --> 00:50:46,210
or whatever and so they accommodate that

1233
00:50:50,550 --> 00:50:48,550
in design but optical designers would

1234
00:50:52,860 --> 00:50:50,560
love to make something that's a perfect

1235
00:50:54,930 --> 00:50:52,870
optical design that doesn't sag out of

1236
00:50:57,600 --> 00:50:54,940
the materials made out of that's right a

1237
00:50:59,190 --> 00:50:57,610
wonderful really large telescope mirrors

1238
00:51:01,260 --> 00:50:59,200
like way ground-based telescopes and

1239
00:51:03,780 --> 00:51:01,270
stuff actually can flow a little bit I

1240
00:51:06,180 --> 00:51:03,790
remember a story I heard a long time ago

1241
00:51:07,140 --> 00:51:06,190
I don't know if this is urban legend I

1242
00:51:09,210 --> 00:51:07,150
have never been a mcdonald observatory

1243
00:51:11,610 --> 00:51:09,220
but there are actually bullet holes in

1244
00:51:12,059 --> 00:51:11,620
the primary mirror at McDonald's herba

1245
00:51:14,309 --> 00:51:12,069
Tory

1246
00:51:16,229 --> 00:51:14,319
we're and they it just didn't crack or

1247
00:51:18,779 --> 00:51:16,239
break the glass at all it just it just

1248
00:51:19,890 --> 00:51:18,789
went right through so interesting

1249
00:51:21,900 --> 00:51:19,900
interesting properties of glass

1250
00:51:26,009 --> 00:51:21,910
especially when you're really large so

1251
00:51:28,140 --> 00:51:26,019
that's a good point okay so um it so

1252
00:51:30,749 --> 00:51:28,150
what it you've told us a little bit I

1253
00:51:32,489 --> 00:51:30,759
given us a glimpse about about your

1254
00:51:34,319 --> 00:51:32,499
company and you've told us what you're

1255
00:51:36,959 --> 00:51:34,329
doing with 3d printing in the near term

1256
00:51:38,309 --> 00:51:36,969
what what do you what do you have in the

1257
00:51:40,109 --> 00:51:38,319
wings what else are you working on that

1258
00:51:43,680 --> 00:51:40,119
you'd like us to know about and for the

1259
00:51:45,719 --> 00:51:43,690
lot for the distant future well look I

1260
00:51:49,319 --> 00:51:45,729
think what's most important and most

1261
00:51:51,449 --> 00:51:49,329
exciting is that is that we you know

1262
00:51:53,189 --> 00:51:51,459
from here on out they'll always be a new

1263
00:51:55,259 --> 00:51:53,199
way to get things into space aside from

1264
00:51:57,209 --> 00:51:55,269
launching them and for us that's

1265
00:52:00,120 --> 00:51:57,219
important because we want we want

1266
00:52:02,370 --> 00:52:00,130
everybody on the planet to use this

1267
00:52:05,969 --> 00:52:02,380
printer in a way if they can we want to

1268
00:52:07,650 --> 00:52:05,979
connect the world to space we want new

1269
00:52:10,170 --> 00:52:07,660
initiatives in space to be spawned

1270
00:52:13,680 --> 00:52:10,180
because there's a new faster cheaper way

1271
00:52:16,229 --> 00:52:13,690
to get things there that's important for

1272
00:52:18,900 --> 00:52:16,239
us we've we've had you know some really

1273
00:52:22,349 --> 00:52:18,910
exciting ideas we've had people talking

1274
00:52:24,359 --> 00:52:22,359
to us about building cube sets with the

1275
00:52:26,609 --> 00:52:24,369
3d printer so imagine not needing to

1276
00:52:28,890 --> 00:52:26,619
build your cube sat on the ground and

1277
00:52:31,620 --> 00:52:28,900
said just having it built there and tell

1278
00:52:36,140 --> 00:52:31,630
us what cube SATs are oh yeah sorry so I

1279
00:52:41,489 --> 00:52:38,819
CubeSat it's it's a 10 centimeter cube

1280
00:52:44,609 --> 00:52:41,499
it's a small little satellite but packed

1281
00:52:46,620 --> 00:52:44,619
inside is the latest technology you know

1282
00:52:48,630 --> 00:52:46,630
keeping up with Moore's law in a way we

1283
00:52:50,699 --> 00:52:48,640
can everything that's in your cell phone

1284
00:52:53,160 --> 00:52:50,709
could be a satellite so imagine putting

1285
00:52:56,009 --> 00:52:53,170
that technology into a little box and

1286
00:52:58,439 --> 00:52:56,019
putting in space it's what today there's

1287
00:53:01,289 --> 00:52:58,449
it's a revolution because of where that

1288
00:53:03,299 --> 00:53:01,299
technology's headed but it's still it's

1289
00:53:06,420 --> 00:53:03,309
still timely manner it's a very hands-on

1290
00:53:09,269 --> 00:53:06,430
manner to build even these really small

1291
00:53:11,789 --> 00:53:09,279
satellites and you know when I was in

1292
00:53:14,430 --> 00:53:11,799
college several years ago I built a keep

1293
00:53:16,620 --> 00:53:14,440
that just like a lot of aerospace

1294
00:53:18,089 --> 00:53:16,630
engineering students do it's really good

1295
00:53:20,339 --> 00:53:18,099
exercise to learn how to build

1296
00:53:23,910 --> 00:53:20,349
satellites but they never they never

1297
00:53:25,230 --> 00:53:23,920
really flew arzga roof today it's that's

1298
00:53:27,750 --> 00:53:25,240
starting to change EB SATs are

1299
00:53:30,960 --> 00:53:27,760
flying a lot there's companies that are

1300
00:53:34,350 --> 00:53:30,970
launching you know in the hundreds of

1301
00:53:37,350 --> 00:53:34,360
cute sets in a year and that's changing

1302
00:53:39,570 --> 00:53:37,360
how we do satellites how we how we look

1303
00:53:42,900 --> 00:53:39,580
at our earth how we do science and space

1304
00:53:44,970 --> 00:53:42,910
and so on so one of the exciting things

1305
00:53:46,590 --> 00:53:44,980
is we could we can actually just build

1306
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:46,600
those on the space station with the

1307
00:53:51,810 --> 00:53:49,510
printer so now what I'm excited about is

1308
00:53:53,940 --> 00:53:51,820
for the future students who instead of

1309
00:53:55,560 --> 00:53:53,950
spending a year building akita on the

1310
00:53:58,320 --> 00:53:55,570
ground they said spend all that time

1311
00:54:00,600 --> 00:53:58,330
designing a mission and have their boots

1312
00:54:01,800 --> 00:54:00,610
at bill on the man really fast and

1313
00:54:04,650 --> 00:54:01,810
launched and then they get to do a

1314
00:54:08,640 --> 00:54:04,660
mission and you know that's that's

1315
00:54:10,470 --> 00:54:08,650
actually possible now forth for anybody

1316
00:54:13,140 --> 00:54:10,480
to have their own space mission so

1317
00:54:16,890 --> 00:54:13,150
that's something that I see coming to

1318
00:54:18,870 --> 00:54:16,900
the zoo and and as a company you know we

1319
00:54:21,900 --> 00:54:18,880
what we've done is we've done a couple

1320
00:54:23,810 --> 00:54:21,910
things you we reduce earth dependency

1321
00:54:26,370 --> 00:54:23,820
for astronauts that's number one so

1322
00:54:28,290 --> 00:54:26,380
astron people in space today are less

1323
00:54:30,810 --> 00:54:28,300
dependent on earth they can when they

1324
00:54:33,770 --> 00:54:30,820
need something whether it's emergency

1325
00:54:36,330 --> 00:54:33,780
fix or a new tool or anything like that

1326
00:54:39,870 --> 00:54:36,340
the chances are it can actually be 3d

1327
00:54:41,640 --> 00:54:39,880
printed in space we don't need to launch

1328
00:54:44,190 --> 00:54:41,650
an entire rocket to bring them a new

1329
00:54:45,630 --> 00:54:44,200
wrench and that's important for Space

1330
00:54:49,500 --> 00:54:45,640
Station but it's absolutely necessary

1331
00:54:52,890 --> 00:54:49,510
for a Mars mission yeah we need if we

1332
00:54:55,200 --> 00:54:52,900
really want to do a Mars mission or or

1333
00:54:58,170 --> 00:54:55,210
even a moon mission and put people in

1334
00:55:00,840 --> 00:54:58,180
the moon we need to get off of the

1335
00:55:03,420 --> 00:55:00,850
paradigm that the only way to do it is

1336
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to have the ability to keep relaunching

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00:55:09,720 --> 00:55:07,600
rockets so so our technology will always

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00:55:13,650 --> 00:55:09,730
be wherever there's humans in space from

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00:55:15,840 --> 00:55:13,660
here on out and and then well if along

1340
00:55:17,430 --> 00:55:15,850
with it anybody else on earth will be

1341
00:55:19,530 --> 00:55:17,440
able to go along because they'll be able

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00:55:23,910 --> 00:55:19,540
to send their things there you know at

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00:55:26,609 --> 00:55:23,920
the speed of light co Adam synergies

1344
00:55:28,050 --> 00:55:26,619
back and hey Adam he goes he's

1345
00:55:29,370 --> 00:55:28,060
confirming what I just said it's true

1346
00:55:30,480 --> 00:55:29,380
there are several bullet holes in the

1347
00:55:33,480 --> 00:55:30,490
primary mirror of the Large Telescope

1348
00:55:35,820 --> 00:55:33,490
and McDonald Observatory courtesy of a

1349
00:55:37,560 --> 00:55:35,830
crazy Texan employee in the seventies

1350
00:55:38,900 --> 00:55:37,570
yeah I don't recall who I heard it from

1351
00:55:40,339 --> 00:55:38,910
but yeah there's

1352
00:55:47,599 --> 00:55:40,349
right into them down the tube of the

1353
00:55:49,370 --> 00:55:47,609
telescope so it's absolutely sure all

1354
00:55:50,059 --> 00:55:49,380
right let's see here Scotty you want to

1355
00:55:52,579 --> 00:55:50,069
help me make sure I'm not missing

1356
00:55:54,470 --> 00:55:52,589
anybody Oh Phillip is commenting the VLT

1357
00:55:58,370 --> 00:55:54,480
mirrors float on magnets that's right a

1358
00:56:01,130 --> 00:55:58,380
very large telescope in in Chile let's

1359
00:56:02,329 --> 00:56:01,140
see jonathan peters is asking i wanna

1360
00:56:04,069 --> 00:56:02,339
get it to a couple more before we're

1361
00:56:06,829 --> 00:56:04,079
running out of time here is it possible

1362
00:56:10,490 --> 00:56:06,839
to print aerogel materials from this or

1363
00:56:12,529 --> 00:56:10,500
future devices yeah you know we probably

1364
00:56:15,049 --> 00:56:12,539
will see future devices do exotic

1365
00:56:18,650 --> 00:56:15,059
materials like aerogel and the the

1366
00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:18,660
printers are Joe aerogel is awesome

1367
00:56:22,460 --> 00:56:20,970
you're is off you really got it like

1368
00:56:25,010 --> 00:56:22,470
Google and look at a picture of it

1369
00:56:27,380 --> 00:56:25,020
you'll probably think it's photoshopped

1370
00:56:31,039 --> 00:56:27,390
image but it's just this incredible

1371
00:56:34,400 --> 00:56:31,049
material that's extremely light it can

1372
00:56:35,599 --> 00:56:34,410
it has really high you know temperatures

1373
00:56:37,640 --> 00:56:35,609
that it can withstand so that you'll

1374
00:56:40,549 --> 00:56:37,650
find a picture of a match burning

1375
00:56:42,620 --> 00:56:40,559
sitting on top of this stuff um but it's

1376
00:56:44,980 --> 00:56:42,630
you know works really well for for

1377
00:56:48,049 --> 00:56:44,990
things like insulators and so on so

1378
00:56:50,420 --> 00:56:48,059
exotic materials are are always in the

1379
00:56:52,760 --> 00:56:50,430
realm of where research is for 3d

1380
00:56:56,990 --> 00:56:52,770
printing the printer that's on the space

1381
00:56:59,059 --> 00:56:57,000
station today does thermoplastics so and

1382
00:57:02,329 --> 00:56:59,069
a thermoplastic is a type of plastic

1383
00:57:04,460 --> 00:57:02,339
that you can melt and form and then ream

1384
00:57:08,769 --> 00:57:04,470
ill and that's that's kind of important

1385
00:57:11,660 --> 00:57:08,779
for the way that process works cool

1386
00:57:14,660 --> 00:57:11,670
let's see jonathan peters is also

1387
00:57:16,609 --> 00:57:14,670
commenting in space chocolate and space

1388
00:57:20,450 --> 00:57:16,619
cheeburger don't forget space g bugga

1389
00:57:22,430 --> 00:57:20,460
you can manufacture last one you can

1390
00:57:25,700 --> 00:57:22,440
manufacture plastic lenses with stereo

1391
00:57:28,430 --> 00:57:25,710
lithography which is fluid printing good

1392
00:57:30,319 --> 00:57:28,440
for telescopes maybe yep yeah good i

1393
00:57:33,799 --> 00:57:30,329
think it's that you know that my little

1394
00:57:36,410 --> 00:57:33,809
comment there is well absolutely but

1395
00:57:38,180 --> 00:57:36,420
we've when we started this process we

1396
00:57:39,740 --> 00:57:38,190
our goal was how can we get

1397
00:57:43,010 --> 00:57:39,750
manufacturing the space of the quickest

1398
00:57:46,010 --> 00:57:43,020
and and i also have an impact so we

1399
00:57:49,039 --> 00:57:46,020
identified that the tight this fused

1400
00:57:50,779 --> 00:57:49,049
deposition modeling or fdm style 3d

1401
00:57:52,700 --> 00:57:50,789
printing it's really an extrusion based

1402
00:57:55,250 --> 00:57:52,710
printing where you have a solid fly

1403
00:57:57,470 --> 00:57:55,260
lastic feedstock and you melted through

1404
00:58:00,740 --> 00:57:57,480
a nozzle so it's like imagine like a hot

1405
00:58:03,170 --> 00:58:00,750
glue gun that was something that we saw

1406
00:58:04,940 --> 00:58:03,180
at the highest potential just working in

1407
00:58:07,370 --> 00:58:04,950
zero gravity we didn't have to control a

1408
00:58:10,240 --> 00:58:07,380
fluid we have to control a powder of

1409
00:58:12,770 --> 00:58:10,250
metal and it also would be useful

1410
00:58:16,280 --> 00:58:12,780
astronauts can use it people could use

1411
00:58:18,020 --> 00:58:16,290
it so that was our path there's we would

1412
00:58:20,510 --> 00:58:18,030
definitely are working now on many other

1413
00:58:22,790 --> 00:58:20,520
technologies so I mentioned for one the

1414
00:58:26,120 --> 00:58:22,800
lunar printing we were making sure our

1415
00:58:28,099 --> 00:58:26,130
technology could be used on the moon but

1416
00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:28,109
you know we have to keep developing new

1417
00:58:32,120 --> 00:58:30,450
technologies or we will never get the

1418
00:58:33,829 --> 00:58:32,130
full picture of space manufacturing

1419
00:58:35,300 --> 00:58:33,839
awesome well that's we're going to I

1420
00:58:37,000 --> 00:58:35,310
guess well that'll be a good place to

1421
00:58:39,710 --> 00:58:37,010
close it there we're running out of time

1422
00:58:41,810 --> 00:58:39,720
Jason Dunn he's the co-founder and the

1423
00:58:44,420 --> 00:58:41,820
chief technology officer of made in

1424
00:58:45,770 --> 00:58:44,430
space a company that is currently

1425
00:58:47,960 --> 00:58:45,780
working with NASA to test this

1426
00:58:50,540 --> 00:58:47,970
technology of manufacturing out in

1427
00:58:55,190 --> 00:58:50,550
zero-g their website is made in space

1428
00:58:57,380 --> 00:58:55,200
dot u dot us right based on us and you

1429
00:58:59,990 --> 00:58:57,390
can follow these guys and at made his

1430
00:59:01,220 --> 00:59:00,000
faith and keep in Jason I hope we can

1431
00:59:03,290 --> 00:59:01,230
have you back and you'll talk to us

1432
00:59:05,000 --> 00:59:03,300
again about how things are going and but

1433
00:59:07,370 --> 00:59:05,010
and how it went after you get some

1434
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:07,380
results I would love to thanks for

1435
00:59:12,920 --> 00:59:09,570
having awesome that's great thank you so

1436
00:59:15,200 --> 00:59:12,930
much that's for the up okay well guys I

1437
00:59:18,050 --> 00:59:15,210
guess that's it for now next week we're

1438
00:59:20,210 --> 00:59:18,060
going to be talking about comet siding

1439
00:59:22,520 --> 00:59:20,220
spring I believe for the Hubble you're

1440
00:59:24,230 --> 00:59:22,530
supposed to be looking at it I guess

1441
00:59:27,710 --> 00:59:24,240
this weekend it's looking at isn't right

1442
00:59:29,300 --> 00:59:27,720
up in ok so we'll be talking about what

1443
00:59:30,589 --> 00:59:29,310
it sees and we'll have images to show

1444
00:59:32,359 --> 00:59:30,599
you and hopefully there will be some

1445
00:59:35,839 --> 00:59:32,369
cool stuff that comes out of that so

1446
00:59:37,849 --> 00:59:35,849
until then we would like you to follow

1447
00:59:39,800 --> 00:59:37,859
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1448
00:59:42,829 --> 00:59:39,810
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1449
00:59:45,109 --> 00:59:42,839
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1450
00:59:47,750 --> 00:59:45,119
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1451
00:59:51,230 --> 00:59:47,760
Scott another one in the back the guy