{"id":6371,"date":"2015-10-09T08:53:44","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T08:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revoscience.com\/en\/?p=6371"},"modified":"2015-10-09T08:53:44","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T08:53:44","slug":"nasa-announces-winners-for-3-d-printed-container-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-announces-winners-for-3-d-printed-container-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Announces Winners for 3-D Printed Container Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Student Ryan Beam holds his Clip Catch, a winning design.
Credits: Ryan Beam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A workshop where tools floated around would be difficult to work in. So, NASA has chosen two winning designs from K-12 students for a 3-D printed container to help astronauts on the International Space Station keep things in order.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The agency, in partnership with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers Foundation, which managed the competition, announced the winners of the Future Engineers 3-D Space Container Challenge Thursday. The winning designs focused on making life in space a little more comfortable for astronauts.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThe simplest tasks on Earth can be quite challenging, and even dangerous, in space,\u201d said Niki Werkheiser, NASA\u2019s In-Space Manufacturing project manager. \u201cBeing able to 3-D print technical parts, as well as the lifestyle items that we use every day will not only help enable deep space travel, but can make the trip more pleasant for astronauts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The 3-D space Container Challenge\u00a0asked students to design models of containers that could be used in space. They could range from simple containers that could be used to hold collected rocks on Mars or an astronaut\u2019s food, to advanced containers for experiments that study fruit flies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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[pullquote]The simplest tasks on Earth can be quite challenging, and even dangerous, in space.[\/pullquote]<\/p>\n

Students across the United States spent part of their summer using 3-D modeling software to design containers that could be 3-D printed, with the ultimate goal of advancing human space exploration on the International Space Station, Mars and beyond.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Ryan Beam of Scotts Valley, California, designed the winning container in the Teen Group, ages 13-19. Beam\u2019s ClipCatch design will allow astronauts on the space station to clip their fingernails without worrying about the clippings floating away and potentially becoming harmful debris.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Student Emily Takara with her winning design, the Flower Tea Cage, in the Future Engineers 3-D Space Container Challenge.
Credits: Emily Takara<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Emily Takara from Cupertino, California, designed the winning container from the Junior Group, ages 5-12. Her design is a Flower Tea Cage, which uses the surface tension of liquids in a microgravity environment to allow astronauts to make tea. In space, liquids form spheres and adhere to things they touch.<\/span><\/p>\n

Demonstrating the use of a 3-D printer for on-demand manufacturing technology in space is the first step toward realizing a print-on-demand \u201cmachine shop\u201d for future long-duration exploration missions where there is a limited resupply capability. The 3-D Space Container Challenge, which supports NASA\u2019s In-space Manufacturing Initiative, is the second in a series of Future Engineers\u00a03-D Printing challenges for students focused on designing solutions to real-world space exploration problems.<\/span><\/p>\n

The In-space Manufacturing Initiative falls under NASA\u2019s Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate and is\u00a0managed by the agency\u2019s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA has chosen two winning designs from K-12 students for a 3-D printed container to help astronauts on the International Space Station keep things in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":6373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a-244x300.png",244,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",53,65,false],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",276,338,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",78,96,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/15-205a.png",150,184,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Amrita Tuladhar"]},"category_info":"Culture<\/a> Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}