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Completed TRL 3 (started at 3, targeting 3)
Structural Member: Demonstrate a recycling additive manufacturing material system that can create structural components using terrestrial/space based materials and recyclables.
The long-term vision is that habitat-manufacturing machines could someday be deployed to the Moon, Mars or beyond to autonomously prepare shelters for the human explorers who follow.
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