Now’s your chance to send a bit of yourself into space! NASA is hosting a GrabCAD competition to design a handrail clamp assembly (HCA) for The International Space Station, to be 3D printed on the currently installed Made In Space Zero Gravity Printer and used by the ISS crew.
Open from now until February 17, the NASA Handrail Clamp Assembly Challenge is seeking designs for a complementary HCA now used as a rigid mounting device by astronauts in microgravity. Referred to as the CHAMP (for Handrail with Additively Manufactured Parts), the device will both help NASA better understand microgravity’s effect on FDM 3D printing, while providing the folks on the ISS with a practical tool. …
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