In 2017 the Contour Crafting Corporation(of which Khoshnevis is the CEO) announced a partnership with and investment from Doka Ventures.
This principle of rapid
prototyping was developed by the US researcher Behrokh Khoshnevis, a professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
Khoshnevis stated in 2010 that NASA was evaluating
Contour Crafting for its application in the construction of bases on Mars and the Moon.
In 2009, graduate students from Singularity University(an unofficial Silicon Valley University)
set up an ACASA project, with Khoshnevis as project director, to commercialize the“Contour Crafting”(CC) technique.
Khoshnevis realized that this technique could exceed these techniques
where“current methods are limited to fabrication of part dimensions that are generally less than one meter is each dimension”.
The second technique, Contour Crafting by Behrohk Khoshnevis, initially began as a novel ceramic extrusion and shaping method,
as an alternative to the emerging polymer and metal 3D printing techniques, and was patented in 1995.
That same year 2010, Khoshnevis announces that NASAis evaluating the possibility of using
the Contour Crafting for the construction of bases on the planet Mars and/ or Moon, which also requires the ability to collect, transport and prepare the lunar material at reasonable costs, a question studied two years earlier by Zacny et al.