It seems like something straight out of sci-fi film. A rocket jetting into space, having been made entirely by a 3D printer.
Sadly this time the project didn’t quite hit the heights. Three minutes after its launch from Florida’s Cape Canaveral it fell back down to Earth.
But while it might not have been an out-of-the-world success, scientists are still heralding it as a huge breakthrough. So what is 3D printing and how does it work?
