{"id":211541,"date":"2025-04-16T05:11:44","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/history-made-metal-made-in-space-lands-on-earth-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2025-04-16T05:11:44","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T10:11:44","slug":"history-made-metal-made-in-space-lands-on-earth-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/history-made-metal-made-in-space-lands-on-earth-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"History Made: Metal Made in Space Lands on Earth for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/history-made-metal-made-in-space-lands-on-earth-for-the-first-time.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first metal 3D-printed part ever manufactured in orbit has returned to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Produced using ESA\u2019s Metal 3D Printer aboard the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite that orbits Earth, serving as a space environment research laboratory where scientific research is conducted across multiple fields, including astrobiology, astronomy, and meteorology. Launched in 1998, the ISS is a joint project involving space agencies from the United States, Russia, Japan, Europe, and Canada. It functions both as a testament to international cooperation in space exploration and as a platform for extensive scientific experiments conducted in the unique conditions of space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first metal 3D-printed part ever manufactured in orbit has returned to Earth. Produced using ESA\u2019s Metal 3D Printer aboard the International Space Station. The International Space Station (ISS) is a habitable artificial satellite that orbits Earth, serving as a space environment research laboratory where scientific research is conducted across multiple fields, including astrobiology, astronomy, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211541","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}