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Gone are the days when a printer was something in the corner used simply to print out tax returns or children's homework.

On Wednesday, the first ever 3D-printed space rocket is preparing to launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

Newsday have been speaking to Leah Crane - a physics and space reporter with the New Scientist magazine. She says "it's the biggest 3D-printed object ever" and "a quick an easy way to make a rocket".

Despite the rocket skipping its final test, Crane thinks "it has a pretty good chance of launching and if it does make it to orbit on the first try, that's a really big deal. It's generally not that easy."

(Photo: Relativity Space鈥檚 Terran 1 on the launch pad in Florida. Credit: Trevor Mahlmann/Relativity Space)