{"id":74436,"date":"2017-12-13T02:22:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-13T10:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/in-space-manufacturing-is-about-to-get-a-big-test"},"modified":"2017-12-17T00:01:09","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T08:01:09","slug":"in-space-manufacturing-is-about-to-get-a-big-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/in-space-manufacturing-is-about-to-get-a-big-test","title":{"rendered":"In-Space Manufacturing Is About to Get a Big Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/in-space-manufacturing-is-about-to-get-a-big-test.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A bold plan to rev up off-Earth manufacturing is about to get a big test.<\/p>\n<p>A small, privately built machine <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34542-made-in-space-optical-fiber-in-orbit.html\">designed to make optical fiber<\/a> is launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX\u2019s Dragon cargo capsule tomorrow (Dec. 12).<\/p>\n<p>If all goes according to plan, this little factory \u2014 which is owned by California-based startup Made In Space \u2014 will churn out stuff that\u2019s good enough to sell here on Earth, opening up space to greater commercial use. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/25706-3d-printing-transforming-space-travel.html\">3D Printing: 10 Ways It Could Transform Space Travel<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39039-made-in-space-off-earth-manufacturing-test.html\">https:\/\/www.space.com\/39039-made-in-space-off-earth-manufacturing-test.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bold plan to rev up off-Earth manufacturing is about to get a big test. A small, privately built machine designed to make optical fiber is launching toward the International Space Station (ISS) aboard SpaceX\u2019s Dragon cargo capsule tomorrow (Dec. 12). If all goes according to plan, this little factory \u2014 which is owned by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74436","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=74436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74578,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74436\/revisions\/74578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}