view from cupola erik svedberg

December 23, 2019

The View From the Cupola: Erik Svedberg

I am very excited to introduce this special issue of Upward to you, as its focus is on materials research in space.

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misse table with blue ruler

December 14, 2018

Tough Enough for Space: Accelerating Materials Testing With a New Permanent Platform

Without question, space is a harsh place where radiation, temperature extremes, orbital debris, and atomic oxygen flourish.

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space station radiation detection upward

November 27, 2017

The Little Furnace That Could: Using Space to Improve Radiation Detection

Everything emits radiation—from bananas in your kitchen, to cosmic rays from space, to the screen you're reading from.

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June 27, 2017

The New Gold Rush: 3D Printing in Micro-G

Until a year ago, commercially printing objects in space was the stuff of science fiction. Not anymore.

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Lenore Rasmussen, Ph.D., principal investigator of the Synthetic Muscle investigation, checks the pressure during the oxygen plasma treatment of titanium metal support mounts at the U.S. Department of Energys Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. The mounts are supporting the samples during flight on the International Space Station

June 16, 2016

Bringing Motion to Life: Materials Science Research in Space

For the majority of us, we take for granted the delicate, precise, and constant duties our hands perform on our command.

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