Tuesday, December 30, 2014

NASA Post JIT

NASA ‘e-mails’ a wrench to space for the first time

This quick and cheap delivery will become more useful when astronauts venture beyond the planet’s orbit.

‘‘When we do set up the first human colonies on the moon, Mars and beyond, we won’t use rockets to bring along everything we need,’’ Made in Space founder Mike Chen wrote on Medium. ‘‘We’ll build what we need there, when we need it.’’