TBT: Massive, AI-powered robots are 3D-printing entire rockets

PLUS: The best WIRED stories from this month a year ago. View this email in your browser  |  Manage newsletter subscriptions 10.29.20 Take a peek inside Relativity Space, a company that may have the biggest metal 3D printers in the world. What are they doing with these 30-foot-tall machines, you ask? Printing rockets to get us to Mars, of course. Read all about these rocket-printing robots, plus more of the best WIRED stories from this month a year ago, below.   Massive, AI-Powered Robots Are 3D-Printing Entire Rockets Relativity Space may have the biggest metal 3D printers in the world, and they're cranking out parts to reinvent the rocket industry here—and on Mars. The Best Stories From This Month, Last Year At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms Fried onion meets 1984. Planting Tiny Spy Chips in Hardware Can Cost as Little as $200 A new proof-of-concept hardware implant shows how easy it may be to hide malicious chips inside IT equipment. Cut Your Own Vinyl Records With This $1,100 Machine The Phonocut is an at-home vinyl lathe, allowing anyone with a digital audio file and a dream to make a 10-inch record. How Eliud Kipchoge Pulled Off His Epic, Sub-2-Hour Marathon Sports physiologist Michael Joyner breaks down what it takes to run a marathon in less than two hours—and how it could happen again. The Quest to Get Photos of the USSR's First Space Shuttle French photographer Jonk snuck into Baikonur spaceport in Kazakhstan to capture images of the Buran shuttle. Why Lightning Strikes Twice as Much Over Shipping Lanes It might sound crazy, but it's true: The heavens cast their wrath and fury on the ships more than on the fishes.     This e-mail was sent to you by WIRED. To ensure delivery to your inbox (not bulk or junk folders), please add our e-mail address, wired@newsletters.wired.com, to your address book.   View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe or manage your newsletter subscriptions