Space Manufacturing May Soon Remake the Planet Below
In the third episode of Bloomberg’s Giant Leap, we look at how industry in orbit is a key to our future on Earth—and among the stars.
How microgravity will change manufacturing.
Living and working in space is an expensive proposition—there has to be a payoff for all that time, effort and investment. Thanks to microgravity, there is—and it has the potential to be huge.
In episode three of Giant Leap, a Bloomberg Originals series, we take a look at the companies aiming to develop their products in low-Earth orbit. These days, startups are ready to create materials never before seen, including tools that can be 3D printed in microgravity for use in the International Space Station and on missions to the moon and beyond.
“Elon Musk and Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos and many other industrialists and forward-lookers—they’re making big investments to go up there. But there has to be a why; there has to be a reason to go,” says Dr. Richard Leach, NASA’s Chief Strategy Officer.