Today, NASA announced Orion's flight test is scrubbed. This is because of issue related to valves on Delta IV heavy rocket and they will try it again tomorrow. Because this is still the first test of a spacecraft that is designed to take human further than they have ever gone, there is no astronaut on it. And this will also mark the first time since the Apollo 17 moonshot in 1972 that a spacecraft will carry people far away from earth.
Obama Becomes First 3D-Printed President. NBC News. NBC News, 03 Dec. 2014. Web. 04 Dec. 2014. President Obama's face is scanned by experts from the University of Southern California's Institute. Digital imaging specialists at the Smithsonian created 3D printed bust and life mask of him. The first portraits are shown at the White House during a gathering of inventors, entrepreneurs and students. And the portraits are going on display at the Smithsonian. This is thought as a new genre of portraiture and it will be fascinating to see how it will be picked up and how the other administrations will also use that particular tool.