'In' stone moon tool

As lunar reclammers needed new tools to replace the damaged parts, like the base of the spacecraft, they just took lunar rocks and piled into 3D printers, according to a new report from the US.

>>> "Print" 3D objects with stone injection machine

Cylinder tube made from moon rock material - (Photo: Washington State University)

The ability to use materials available on the moon to fabricate objects and repair equipment locally can save a lot of money for the first people residing on Earth's natural satellites.

To assess the feasibility of this capability, NASA provided about 4.5 kilograms of lithographic material for the pioneers of 3D printers, Amit Bandyopadhyay and colleagues at Washington State University. ).

"It sounds like science fiction, but now it can be done ," said Professor Amit Bandyopadhyay, head of the research group at NBC News, whose research was published in the Rapid Prototyping Journal.

The team creates simple 3D shapes by loading or scanning information on the printer.

Then, the imitation stone material was piled into a high-tech printer, and the laser beam melted the material to begin the layer-by-layer process in a predetermined shape.