There is no wiggle room once you land on Mars. You either have what you need to survive, or you die.
That risk is dramatically portrayed in the sci-fi book and movie " The Martian," in which a stranded astronaut survives on leftover potatoes, freeze-dried feces, and a lot of gumption.
Read MoreRelativity recently announced the hiring of Tobias Duschl, who has worked for the last six years as senior director of global business operations for Tesla, the electric vehicle company. He will run operations for Relativity as it transitions from development to commercial spaceflight operations over the next three to four years.
Read More3D printing is efficient and highly customizable, and has potential applications across a wide range of industries.
Read MoreRelativity Space CEO Tim Ellis says his printer has passed an industrial standard for welding called AWS D17.1 Class A, which has stringent rules for quality. ”That’s the standard you would use for fracture-critical, mission critical parts that cannot fail,” he says. Ellis gave Quartz a rare look inside the process.
Read MoreOn Monday morning, Relativity will announce the hiring of Tim Buzza as an adviser to shepherd the company's launch vehicle execution.
Read MoreIt was 2015 when Tim Ellis and Jordan Noone were working on 3D-printing processes at Blue Origin and SpaceX, respectively. During that time they both realized that a fully 3D-printed rocket was inevitable - and designing one from the ground up could make rockets cheaper and easier to build.
Read MoreThis week on VICE on HBO, the team explores what some people are calling the next industrial revolution and sets out to answer the question that has captivated the human imagination for centuries: Are we alone in the universe?
Read MoreThe co-founders of Relativity Space say they'll soon be able to 3-D print a rocket in just 60 days.
Read MoreRelativity Space is trying to push the bounds of automated rocket production with robotics and 3-D printing.
Read MoreAfter years of stealthy activity, the start-up is making big moves and revealing its plans to overturn more than a half century of tradition in aerospace manufacturing.
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