The NASA Materials Processing in Space (MPS) Program has roots which go back to early observations of fluid materials behavior in low gravity which were made during the Apollo flights of the late sixties. A few years later the MPS program became established formally in organization and budget. Its goals today are to improve fundamental understanding of the role of gravity in the processing of materials, to provide facilities for low-gravity experimentation with, and low-gravity processing of, candidate materials, and to assist American industry in the early commercialization of space processing. A continuing element of this program is through ground-based research to yield new knowledge, to establish a need for flight experimentation, and to identify the conditions, controls, and data for maximum use of this presently limited resource. To this program element, which must continue, the period of space experimentation has now been joined with the successful inauguration of the Space Shuttle flights.


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    Title :

    Overview of the NASA materials processing in space program


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    Publication date :

    1983-01-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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