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Imagine a car made out of this. Would be very fast.
Imagine a spaceship made out of this.
 

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But it would probably get blown off a bridge on a windy day.
The wind would blow both away.

Sure if it were the only material used. Ideally the material that would go on a spaceship would be a composite material made up of several materials (microlattice being one). The final composite material would have several functions and properties. One of the most important being shielding radiation (lots of that in space). So it wouldn't be as light as using the microlattice alone.
 
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