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You Can Now 3D Print The Moon and View Launch Sites in AR

The Earth has only one moon, so it has a special place in our hearts. Since landing on it (and not going back for 45 years), The Moon has remained a mysterious place. It follows us almost 400,000km away as…

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The Earth has only one moon, so it has a special place in our hearts. Since landing on it (and not going back for 45 years), The Moon has remained a mysterious place. It follows us almost 400,000km away as we orbit the Sun, though its conditions make it almost impossible for life.

3D Printed Moon

With 3D printing you can now have your own personal Moon to hold in your hands and have at your desk at work. American startup AstroReality have launched their LUNAR project to better explore the Moon’s surface. This has resulted in their detailed 3D printed model and their mobile application.

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The 3 different sizes of Moon available.

Additive manufacturing has a variety of applications spanning way beyond the surface of the Earth. 3D printing is of great interest to NASA and other members of the space sector has parts can be created on-demand in space. Even more impressively, any part that is required can have the .STL file sent to them from Earth, to print out in space.