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hi my name is nikki werkheiser and i'm

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nasa's in-space manufacturing project

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manager and we're here today in marshall

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space flight center's additive

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manufacturing laboratory

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last year we launched the first ever 3d

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printer to the international space

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station the objective of the in-space

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manufacturing initiative is to develop

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the technologies and capabilities needed

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to make whatever we need wherever we

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might be on exploration missions whether

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it be mars or asteroids today is a very

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exciting day at marshall space flight

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center we will be unboxing the first

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ever flight samples that were printed on

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the international space station orbiting

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around 200 miles above the earth we'll

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be once we unbox these we'll be actually

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performing a detailed test plan uh we'll

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be analyzing those flight samples

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compared to ground controls that we

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printed on earth before the printer was

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launched to space station

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here with me today i have quincy bean

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who is our nasa in-space manufacturing

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principal investigator and greg st john

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who is our quality insurance inspector

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who will verify that we follow all the

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processes and controls when we handle

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the flight samples

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so uh yeah in front of me we have a

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a box that contains the first ever parts

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that were built off of the earth's

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surface they're built on the

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international space station

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all right

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more paperwork

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another copy of the

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a lot of foam

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looks like uh wow

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they're sealed up pretty good

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some scissors would help

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they don't want to cut into the

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bags that they're in double bagged with

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this

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just picks up a little bit

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let's see this is um

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zero one eight

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this was a tensile or it's a tensile

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we use this to test mechanical samples

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zero one four

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tinsel coupon three no

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nasa ames cubesat part

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a little clip for a cubesat

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so this one

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is pretty interesting it's a ratchet

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that was built

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and it was also uplinked uh from the

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ground

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it wasn't on the printer

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on the printer's memory to begin with

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let's see how this one turned out

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actually looks pretty good

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so this ratchet's actually supposed to

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move i don't want to mess with it too

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much right now

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but it's really just kind of a

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a proof of concept that you can build

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functional parts in space so the

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astronauts if they need if they need a

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ratchet or whatever other tool they

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might need

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they could just build it on demand and

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not have to wait a month or two for the

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zero one zero

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zero one nine

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zero one seven

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this one i'm just excited to see

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because it was actually built

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with several cantilevers

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with no support structure

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now so with this we'll see how

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how far

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how much of an overhang we can build and

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still make a

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geometrically

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good quality part

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my favorite part out of all of these

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so yeah now that we have everything out

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of the box

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we'll start testing them

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so first they'll go uh for well first

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they'll get their pictures taken

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and uh so we can get an official

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comparison of the the ground control

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samples which you've already

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taken those pictures

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so if there's any

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difference between the part any visible

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difference

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uh then we'll be able to to take note of

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that

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and then they'll go through what's

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called a structured light scanning

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and so it'll scan the outer geometry

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and then compare that back to the

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original cad model we really want to

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find out if there's any difference

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in how the layers

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adhere to each other in microgravity

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versus 1g and the printer is still on

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the space station it's

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we're gearing up for phase two we have

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more um

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more practical parts rather than just um

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this is mostly test test coupons uh so

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the next phase of prints will be

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uh practical coupons more like the

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ratchet

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but different different tools