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SFA Team Uses Photogrammetry and AI to Replicate a Moon Rock for National Tour

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Faculty, staff, and student workers from Stephen F. Austin State University‘s Makerspace are creating a 3D printed replica of a moon rock from the Apollo 14 mission, working with a genuine NASA-loaned lunar sample housed at the Naranjo Museum of Natural History in Lufkin, Texas. The museum requested the project so it can send the…

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