Building in Space

3D printing in Space

The Future is already here! see these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNqs_S-zEBY

3D printer to be launched in June 2014 on spaceX mission5 to the Intrnational space station

Jason Dunn speak at TED

Chinese building orbital lab by 2023 to make 'space medicine'

Living off the Land

One key requirement is Food, experiments are taking place both here on Earth and on the International Space Station (ISS) to be able to produce food in space, on the moon and on other planets initially for Mars.

SpaceX plans to use In Situ Resources Utilisation (ISRU) for its proposed Mars Base Alpha to be started in 2018 with its first of its dragon missions to Mars followed by its unmanned IPS spaceship in 2022 with a manned set up mission aimed to launch in 2024 arriving in 2025 to set up the working base,

Bigelow Luna Space Station

Made in Space