EP 106 — Space Copy's Madison Feehan On Building Infrastructure With Local Materials In Earth's And Space's Most Extreme Environments

Space Copy builds ruggedized 3D printers that take in raw local materials, soil, sand, scrap metal, ceramics, even simulated moon dust, and print infrastructure on-site in the most extreme environments on Earth and in space. With 300 pre-orders, a NASA contract, and a planned lunar deployment by 2031, they are eliminating the need for external supply chains entirely.

Madison Feehan, Founder and CEO of Space Copy, tells Dave how she went from a part-time role at NASA at 16 to founding a company whose printers can operate from the Arctic Circle to the lunar surface. Their second-gen technology is being built this summer, with a live demo at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center planned for the end of this year and mass deployment targeted for 2027 and 2028.

Topics discussed:

• Building 3D printers hardened for any material class, polymers, ceramics, metals, and regolith
• Pre-selling 300 units before mass production begins
• Printing infrastructure from interlocking bricks to precision tools with no supply chain
• Navigating the material science challenge of multi-material 3D printing in one mechanism
• Planning a 2031 lunar surface deployment through a NASA Space Act Agreement
• Arctic analog astronaut testing combined with humanitarian infrastructure building
• Raising a $5 million seed round after years of grants and contracts
• Turning space debris into feedstock for 3D printing antennas

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