Replica of the First Print in Space

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I caught wind of the groundbreaking news about the first 3D printing in space just before the holidays got underway. With a 3D printing presentation on the horizon, I decided it was high time to create a replica of the "Made In Space / NASA" test print that was put through its paces on the ISS. Unfortunately, despite giving it my best shot, I came up empty-handed in my quest to find the original STL file used for the test print - at least as of this posting date! Undeterred, I rolled up my sleeves and got creative, crafting a model based solely on this image shared with NASA's Twitter community. You'll notice that included alongside this text are both the original SketchUp file and a ready-to-print STL file, carefully scaled to mirror the actual 1:1 scale of the real thing as closely as humanly possible.