
Commander Barry Wilmore worked throughout Monday to install a 3D printer to get the International Space Station and future crews ready for self-sufficiency. Wilmore will work to calibrate the printer and set up a demonstration of the additive manufacturing technology.
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His fellow crew members, Flight Engineers Alexander Samokutyaev and Elena Serova, worked on routine maintenance tasks and cargo transfers in the station’s Russian segment. They also paired up for a cardiovascular exam on an exercise bike, sampled the station’s atmosphere and tested television downlink signals.
The next trio to join Expedition 42 is in Kazakhstan counting down to a Nov. 23 launch aboard a Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft. They are set for a near six-hour ride to the International Space Station where they will live and work until May 2015.

Hey, correct me if I’m wrong, but. Didn’t Astronaut Donald Pettit fix one of those gloveboxes? I believe the official diagnosis was “gremlins”.
It seams really interesting that this 3D zero-G printer makes staying in space more independent of help from Earth. I’m sure that in some fifty years they will make it completely independent. Ray Bradbury fantasy about life on Mars doesn`t seem so utopian already. And when it happens we won`t fly there with tons of things, but we’ll get there only one thing – a printer 😉
I don’t like this brouhaha with 3D printers, but it looks very promising. Weightlessness – is a cool thing!