Television: 60 Minutes Goes to Mars

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Image (Credit): Artist’s rendering of a Martian habitat as envisioned by the Colorado School of Mines and ICON as part of NASA’s 3D Printed Habitat Challenge. (Logan Architecture)

Just a heads up. Tune into CBS’s 60 Minutes next Sunday to learn more about NASA’s efforts to design what may be future habitats on Mars. It involves 3D-printing technologies, which have also been discussed as a means of building a lunar base. In fact, NASA has issued contracts for such construction on the Moon.

Here is a clip discussing this upcoming segment. It is part of a 90-minute episode of 60 Minutes. I am not sure if we should expect a name change for the series.

Note: CBS News had another report on 3D-printing on Mars back in 2017 titled “Mars Colony Could 3D-Print Stuff from Red Planet Dust.” Hopefully, 60 Minutes had a good scoop that advances the story.