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[TJ Creamer]  3D printing provides

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us the ability to be able to do our

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own Star Trek replication right there

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on the spot to help us replace things

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we’ve lost, replace things we’ve

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broken or maybe make things we’ve

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thought of that can be useful.

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Let me give you an example … There

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are a lot of hex head 5/37 inch

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needs on orbit and we can replicate

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these tools for us and we carry

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them around with us.  You can carry

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them around.  You can end up with seat

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track on airplanes are the same kind

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of seat track we use on orbit between

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racks and we put little feet in there

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to anchor things down.  These little

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feet you can end up losing quite a bit.

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The ability to not have to manifest

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mass and launch it to resupply

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ourselves is most convenient.

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[Niki Werkheiser]  3D printing in

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Zero-G will be ready to launch in early

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June of 2014.  Currently we’re slated

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for SpaceX 5.

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The goal of 3D printing is that we want

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to take this to microgravity and for use

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on the International Space Station.

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As you might imagine, on space station

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whatever they have available on orbit

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is what they have to use.  And just like

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on the ground you have parts that break

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or get lost.  When that happens, we do

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have to wait for replacement parts, or

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we have to use multiple spares that have

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to be launched which does require extra mass.

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The idea here is that we will, on demand,

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be able to print replacement or spare

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parts as needed.  We can have the prints

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preloaded onto the printer or we can

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upload directly from the ground.  So

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we’ll have an on demand 3D printing

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capability on station.

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[Jason Dunn]  We’ve actually been doing

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a lot of testing on the 3D printer right

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now.  The most recent set of tests we did,

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through the flight opportunities program,

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another contract we have with NASA where

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we flew the printer on zero gravity

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parabolic flights just a few weeks ago

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where we actually verified that the

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design of our printer works in

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microgravity which was a huge step to

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getting to the space station.

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[Niki Werkheiser] Made In Space is

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responsible for designing the hardware

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that NASA is helping to provide insight