I hope you are either planning to attend at the National Air and Space Museum or watch the live stream of the #ProjectEgress build with Adam Savage.
Read more here https://airandspace.si.edu/events/project-egress-build and https://www.tested.com/science/space/880604-announcing-project-egress-project-national-air-and-space-museum/
This event should be live streamed tomorrow by the Smithsonian and/or Tested.com.
Jen Schachter and Andrew Barth worked into the evening to get as prepared as they can get for this complicated build of many parts some 3D printed, some machined, and some sourced.
Autodesk’s employees Jonathan Odom and Joe Jastreboski fabricated the ‘plunger’ part of the hatch at Autodesk’s Technology Center in San Francisco. Using high resolution 3D scans of the hatch captured inside the National Air and Space Museum, engineering student Andrew Barth was able to reverse engineer and model the functioning components that make up the various intricate mechanics of the…