Future Materials Science Research on the International Space Station

Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems, National Research Council

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Microgravity Research and the Space Station Furnace Facility Core; 4 2 NASA's Microgravity Research Solicitation and Selection Process; 5 3 Ability of the Space Station Furnace Facility Core to Support Materials Science Experiments that Require a Microgravity Environment; 6 References; 7 Acronyms; 8 Appendix A: Summary of Space Station Furnace Facility Core Systems Science Requirements; 9 Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members