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Astronomycast, episode 355, 3D printing exploration.

Welcome to Astronomycast from weekly facts based journey to the cosmos who help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of University Day and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Ebridsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

I am doing great. We've worked through most of the technical issues that we were experiencing last week, but apparently we have new technical issues.

But hopefully the folks on the audio recording won't even notice because once again Preston will come to our aid and edit everything beautifully together.

Yeah, for those of you who aren't laughing at us as we try and do this live, we have about three seconds of lag between when something is said and when it is heard by the other person.

So it's going to be like one of those awkward satellite broadcasts with the foreign correspondent that you sometimes see on the nightly news.

Yeah, come on, these messages have to go all the way to space and back.

So all right, well let's get cracking, we'll get on with the show then.

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So getting stuff into space is complicated and expensive.

And what do you do when your fancy space gadget breaks?

You print out a new one of course with your fancy space 3D printer.

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