{"id":109896,"date":"2020-07-13T18:59:59","date_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/how-3d-printers-could-build-futuristic-moon-colony"},"modified":"2020-07-13T18:59:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T01:59:59","slug":"how-3d-printers-could-build-futuristic-moon-colony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/how-3d-printers-could-build-futuristic-moon-colony","title":{"rendered":"How 3D Printers Could Build Futuristic Moon Colony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/how-3d-printers-could-build-futuristic-moon-colony2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Circa 2019<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) study is investigating how practical constructing a manned base on the moon only using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technewsdaily.com\/5242-incredible-3d-printed-products.html\">3D printing technology<\/a> could be, given that it would rely primarily on lunar dirt for building materials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTerrestrial 3D printing technology has produced entire structures,\u201d Laurent Pambaguian, who heads the project for ESA, said in a statement. \u201cOur industrial team investigated if it could similarly be employed to build a lunar habitat.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Circa 2019 The European Space Agency (ESA) study is investigating how practical constructing a manned base on the moon only using 3D printing technology could be, given that it would rely primarily on lunar dirt for building materials. \u201cTerrestrial 3D printing technology has produced entire structures,\u201d Laurent Pambaguian, who heads the project for ESA, said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,15,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-habitats","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}