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One of the first materials science experiments on the International Space Station -- the Solidification Using a...
The Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing (CAMMP) in Cambridge, MA, a NASA-sponsored Commercial...
Dr. Richard Grugel, a materials scientist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight in Huntsville, Ala., examines the furnace...
Video images sent to the ground allow scientists to watch the behavior of the bubbles as they control the melting...
Pores and voids often form in metal castings on Earth (above) making them useless. A transparent material that...
RHONDA LASH, A MATERIALS ENGINEER, PREPARES A SAMPLE CARTRIDGE FOR X-RAY. THE CARTRIDGE WAS TESTED ON THE MATERIAL...
Dr. Jan Rogers, project scientist for the Electrostatic Levitator (ESL) at NASA's Marshall Space Flight...
Matthew Koss lectures middle-school students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity...
Pratima Rao lectures students about materials science research in space during the U.S. Microgravity Payload-4...
Line drawing depicts the location of one of three racks that will make up the Materials Science Research Facility in...
Paula Crawford (assisted by an American Sign Language interpreter) lectures students about materials science...
Dr. Donald Gilles, the Discipline Scientist for Materials Science in NASA's Microgravity Materials Science and...
This is a macro photograph of an etched surface of the Mundrabilla meteorite, a small piece of the approximately 3.9...
Astronaut Mike Fincke places droplets of honey onto the strings for the Fluid Merging Viscosity Measurement (FMVM)...
On Earth when scientists melt metals, bubbles that form in the molten material can rise to the surface, pop and...
This metal sample, which is approximately 1 cm in diameter, is typical of the metals that were studied using the...
The Center for Advanced Microgravity Materials Processing (CAMMP), a NASA-sponsored Research Partnership Center, is...
As easy to read as a home pregnancy test, three Quantifiable Lateral Flow Assay (QLFA) strips used to test water for...
Khalid Alshibli of Louisiana State University, project scientist for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM-III)...
Khalid Alshibli of Louisiana State University, project scientist for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM-III)...
Twila Schneider of Infinity Technology in Huntsville, AL, uses a small sand displacement box to explain the...
Astronaut Mike Fincke places droplets of honey onto the strings for the Fluid Merging Viscosity Measurement (FMVM)...
Khalid Alshibli of Louisiana State University, project scientist for the Mechanics of Granular Materials (MGM-III)...
Materials with a smaller mean atomic mass, such as lithium (Li) hydride and polyethylene, make the best radiation...