{"id":73461,"date":"2017-10-25T09:22:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/google-moon-shot-stands-to-give-industrial-3d-printing-a-boost"},"modified":"2017-10-25T09:22:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T16:22:29","slug":"google-moon-shot-stands-to-give-industrial-3d-printing-a-boost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/google-moon-shot-stands-to-give-industrial-3d-printing-a-boost","title":{"rendered":"Google moon shot stands to give industrial 3D printing a boost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/google-moon-shot-stands-to-give-industrial-3d-printing-a-boost.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In what promises to be one small step for space travel, and one giant leap for the next generation of manufacturing, an Israeli startup is planning to land a vehicle on the moon that has crucial parts made using 3D printing technology.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceIL is among five teams vying for Google\u2019s $30 million in prize money to get a spacecraft to the moon by the end of March. One of the startup\u2019s suppliers, Zurich-based RUAG Space, advised turning to 3D printing to manufacture the legs of its unmanned lunar lander. With financial stakes high and a tight deadline, SpaceIL engineers were at first deeply skeptical, according to RUAG executive Franck Mouriaux. They finally acquiesced after a lot of convincing.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/bluesky\/technology\/ct-google-3-d-printing-20171025-story.html\">http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/bluesky\/technology\/ct-google-3...story.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what promises to be one small step for space travel, and one giant leap for the next generation of manufacturing, an Israeli startup is planning to land a vehicle on the moon that has crucial parts made using 3D printing technology. SpaceIL is among five teams vying for Google\u2019s $30 million in prize money [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,45,6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-finance","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73461","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}