If you’re in London between now and February 2020, there’s an exhibition at the Design Museum called Moving to Mars, where artists imagine a future on the Red Planet. It’s an inspiring look at humanity’s potential next planet, but clearly in the realm of the fantastic in parts.

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What are we planning, here on Earth to get us ready for next-stage planetary exploration and terraforming tasks?

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One thing’s clear: we’ll have to build out habitats with materials on hand. There’s no Amazon Prime Mars (yet) for Earth-to-Mars shipments, which is where industrial-scale 3D printing comes into play.

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One company that might help with that effort is Houston-based re:3D . With the tagline “Think BIG, Print HUGE,” re:3D makes the Gigabot, the world’s largest, affordable, industrial 3D printer, which is now available in 50-plus countries. It donates one Gigabot for every 100 sold commercially to a group […]

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