{"id":9544,"date":"2013-12-21T22:05:30","date_gmt":"2013-12-22T06:05:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9544"},"modified":"2017-06-04T12:12:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T19:12:01","slug":"homes-on-mars-3d-printing-could-make-that-possible-says-nasa-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/homes-on-mars-3d-printing-could-make-that-possible-says-nasa-video","title":{"rendered":"Homes on Mars? 3D Printing Could Make That Possible, Says NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/realestate.aol.com\/blog\/writers\/aol-real-estate-editors\">AOL Real Estate Editors<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thinking about building a home on Mars, but having trouble finding a contractor? That might no longer be such a problem, thanks to a new technology that one day could make it much faster to build one there than it takes us now on Earth. A professor at the University of Southern California has designed an automated 3D printer that, he says, would make it \u201cpossible to build an entire home within a day.\u201d \u201cYou press a button and it will be built,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/ise.usc.edu\/directory\/behrokh_khoshnevis.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Behrokh Khoshnevis<\/a>, who teaches industrial and systems engineering at USC.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"photo-slim undefined\"><\/figure>\n<p>The process, called \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.contourcrafting.org\/\">Contour Crafting<\/a>,\u201d was conceived as a way to quickly construct emergency housing on this planet out of concrete. But NASA sees other applications for Khoshnevis\u2019 homebuilding innovation \u2014 for starters, projects such as an airport on the moon. \u201cBehrokh\u2019s work is one of the most creative and far reaching concepts I\u2019ve seen,\u201d said Jason Derleth, the program manager for NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts, in a news release this past summer. \u201cHe really has a chance to change the world by robotically printing buildings here, and he may even change the next human world by doing the same on the moon and Mars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/realestate.aol.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/19\/contour-crafting-homes-on-mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AOL Real Estate Editors Thinking about building a home on Mars, but having trouble finding a contractor? That might no longer be such a problem, thanks to a new technology that one day could make it much faster to build one there than it takes us now on Earth. A professor at the University [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65089,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9544\/revisions\/65089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}