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Is this the future? The astronaut drawn toward the bottom right shows the scale of one design for a future moon or extraterrestrial habitat for humans.

“The advantage of 3D printing is that we can do everything on site and take advantage of the resources on hand, namely iron and water in the form of ice,” said Pierre Brisson, a member of the Mars Society, a group that wants humans to one day colonize the planet. Science Fiction, No More When it comes to outer space, 3D printing technology is just one of the latest tools scientists hope to one day use to turn science fiction into science reality. Some scientists and engineers are working every day to find new ways to travel to distant planets