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3D printing will help space pioneers make homes, tools and other stuff they need to colonize the moon and Mars

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3D printers will enable long-term human presence on the moon and Mars .

They will make tools, structures and habitats needed to survive in hostile alien environment.

Engineers and scientists are working now to adapt 3D printing in space to function in these conditions.

But finding the right raw materials is not easy, and materials behave differently in space.

Engineers are already adapting the techniques that could print Martian habitats to address housing shortages here at home.

3D printers will be one of the primary tools to let human beings live off alien land.

Artemis III , now scheduled for liftoff in 2027 , will be the first human landing since 1972 .

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